Africana Studies Majors

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William Green, Class of 2009
Major: Africana Studies
Minor:History
Concentration: Elementary Education
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

 

William Green was born and raised in inner-city Philadelphia where he graduated from a predominately African American high school.  As a freshman here at Gettysburg College he decided to become an Africana Studies Major after completing his First Year Seminar on Race, Gender, and Economic Outcomes.  He became interested in the insight he gained from that course about historic issues that still face the African American Community as well as other descendents of the African Diaspora.  As a major he has studied abroad in South Africa where he took courses in African History, Society, and Disease as well as an Ethnomusicology course of the African Diaspora.  He had the opportunity to help write a local NGO's history in a public history format. In addition to loads of traveling the country, including Southern Mozambique, he spent a vast amount of time volunteering at a local preschool in the Joza Township in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. This semester he was fortunate to participate in a service-oriented trip in Baltimore, where he observed different school reform models in schools that have a majority African American student body.  In Baltimore he was able to facilitate a group of middle school students in a college and career institute, where they focused on the success of minorities in post-secondary education.  Through this experience he honed his interests in history, African-American studies, and education to teach in the urban education sector.

Savannah Ruth, Class of 2009
Majors: Africana Studies, History
Hometown: New Oxford, PA

Jaclynn Cross, Class of 2010
Majors: Africana Studies, English
Hometown: Randallstown, MD



Jackie is President of the NAACP, Gettysburg College Chapter. She is a member of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority and the B.O.M.B. Squad (Brazen, Outrageous, Major, Bold; The B.O.M.B. Squad provides an alternate form of dance as entertainment at major events for the Gettysburg Collegiate community).

Nicholas Rosenberger, Class of 2011

Majors: Africana Studies, English
Hometown: North Wales, PA

Ryan Tribue, Class of 2011
Major: Africana Studies
Hometown: York, PA

MAJORS NOT PICTURED:

Jeff Monsma, Class of 2009
Majors: Africana Studies and History
Minor: Latin American Studies

Ashton Williams, Class of 2009
Major: Africana Studies

Amanda Geter, Class of 2010
Majors: Africana Studies and Theater Arts

Randall Yingling, Class of 2010
Major: Africana Studies

Katrina Broughton, Class of 2011
Majors: Africana Studies and Psychology

Aiesha Gary, Class of 2011
Majors: Africana Studies and Psychology