Continue your pursuit of African American studies with a master’s degree or PhD at Temple University. As a student, you’ll learn to take your Afrocentric perspective of the world to the next level thanks to one of the nation’s leading African American studies faculties. Learn how you can fund your Africology and African American Studies graduate degree and apply to Temple.
Earn an MA or PhD in Africology and African American Studies
An academic career in Africology and African American studies provides graduate and doctoral-level students with an Afrocentric study of the history, culture, art, politics and economics of Africans, African Americans and people of African descent. We are well-known for our innovation, energy and influence in Black studies. Temple’s professors have published more books than any other department of African American studies faculty in the nation. Our graduates lead more programs in African American studies than any other similar program.
The MA in Africology and African American studies degree is designed to teach students about fundamental theoretical and practical issues confronting African people transcontinentally and transgenerationally. The master’s degree program seeks to answer the personal and intellectual aspirations of students that are not satisfied by a BA in Africology and African American studies degree. An MA in African American studies often serves as a basis for a PhD in the discipline or in an affiliated field.
Our PhD program reflects a deep commitment to the Afrocentric, or self-directed, exploration of academic experiences. It is the goal of the department that graduates of our PhD program are prepared to engage in a diverse range of intellectual issues that affect the lives of Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. Africology African American studies PhD graduates are prepared for university teaching and scholarly research; our graduates have excellent employment track records in major universities nationwide.
