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Elizabeth Foster is Associate Professor of History at Tufts University. She is the author of Faith in Empire: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Rule in French Senegal, 1880-1940 (Stanford 2013), which won the Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize from the French Colonial Historical Society, and most recently, of African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church (Harvard 2019). She has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Center for European Studies and has received Fulbright, NEH, and ACLS fellowships.
She will be presenting: A Truly Universal Church: Alioune Diop and Catholic Negritude.
Discussant: Jacob Olupona
A week in advance, the presenter’s paper will be circulated through the Harvard African Studies Workshop listserv. It is assumed that everyone has read the paper before the workshop. After presentation and commentary, Workshop attendees are invited to engage in critique and discussion, under the moderation of the Workshop Chairs.
ORGANIZER(S): Harvard University Center for African Studies
EVENT WEBSITE: https://africa.harvard.edu/african-studies-workshop-0