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Jason Young, Assistant Professor
office: Park Hall 574
email: jryoung@buffalo.edu
phone: (716) 645-2181 ext: 574

 

Education: B.A., Morehouse College, 1996; Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 2002


Courses Regularly Taught:
161 U.S. History to the Civil War
376 African-American History to Reconstruction
379 African-American History to the present
488 Slave Folklore
545 Readings in the Black Atlantic
493 The Slave Narrative


Field(s): American History; North and South Atlantic


Hub(s): Culture & Society; Transnational Developments


Research Interests: 19th Century U.S., Slavery


Current Research: The Black Atlantic, U.S. Slave culture and religion, pre-colonial Kongo

 

Last updated: Wednesday, September 19, 2007

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