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By Peggy McInerny, Director of Communications UCLA International Institute, January 16, 2019 — UCLA’s Andrew Apter, a faculty member of the African Studies and International Development Studies programs of the International Institute, is heading the (ASC) through June 2020. Apter stepped into the role of interim director this past summer as ASC Director Steven Nelson departed for a. Apter joined the faculty in 2003 with a joint appointment in the Institute and the history department and is no stranger to African Studies at UCLA. The scholar previously chaired the (2003–2007), directed the African Studies Center (2007–2010) and was a founding member of the at UCLA.

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UCLA, he says, approaches African history as “‘Africa in the World’: it is a continent, but it goes beyond the African continent,” he says. “We really see the Black Atlantic as one dimension of the trans-regional oceanic, global reach of Africa,” he adds.

“The others are, of course, the dimensions between East Africa and the Indian Ocean and between North Africa and the Mediterranean.” Working at the confluence of culture, anthropology and history Trained as a sociocultural anthropologist, Apter uses ethnographic research to bring the power of ritual and cultural practices to bear on the historical record, uncovering what he calls a “hidden archive” of primary materials. His work to date has focused on Yoruba culture in both Africa and the Caribbean, as well as the historic “Gold Coast” of West Africa.

The UCLA professor, who won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, is the author of four monographs and numerous articles, book chapters and edited volumes. Among those works are: “” (Chicago, 2018), “,” co-edited with Lauren Derby (Cambridge Scholars, 2010), “” (Chicago, 2007), “” (Chicago, 2005) and “” (Chicago, 1992). Apter’s interest in Africa dates to his childhood.

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His father, David Apter (1924–2010), was a well-known Africanist, political scientist and sociologist who taught at UC Berkeley and later at Yale for close to 40 years. Andrew spent his first years at Northwestern University, where one of the pioneers of African Studies in academia, Melville J. Herskovits (1895–1963), more or less became his unofficial godfather. Herskovits is known both for founding the first African Studies Program in the U.S. (at Northwestern University in 1948) and for his book, “The Myth of the Negro Past” (1940), which rejected the idea that enslaved Africans in the New World had been deracinated from their cultures and historical memories. Instead, Herskovits argued that many Africanisms were apparent among displaced Africans in both the Caribbean and the United States.