Historian and Kroc Institute faculty fellow Richard B. Pierce has been appointed chair of Notre Dame’s new Department of Africana Studies. The department replaces the African and African-American Studies Program and is expected to enhance the university’s efforts to promote diversity and multi-culturalism.

A member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1996, Pierce previously served as associate director of the former AFAM program. He specializes in African-American, urban and civil rights history, and examines social and political protest in urban environments.

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