Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Distinguished Professor & Director of the African & African-American Studies Research Center

Ph.D. - Harvard, 1973

Areas of Specialization: Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Knowledge, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Art, Ethnographic Film, African Studies

Email Address: bjulesrosette@ucsd.edu
Phone number: 858-534-4790
Office location: 471 Social Science Building

Office Hours

African & African-American Studies Research Center

AAASRC office phone: 858-822-0265

Classes to be taught in 2011/12:

Winter 2011

SOCI 188E - Community and Social Change in Africa

Spring 2011

SOCG - Adv. Issues in the Sociology of Knowledge

Biography:

Bennetta Jules-Rosette is Professor of Sociology at the University of California San Diego and Director of the African and African-American Studies Research Center. As Director, she organizes research programs, symposia, community and youth outreach, and cultural events focusing on Africa and the African diaspora. She received her B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) in Social Relations from Radcliffe College and her M.A. (1970) and Ph.D. (1973) from Harvard University in Social Relations (Sociology and Anthropology). Professor Jules-Rosette's research interests include contemporary African art and literature, semiotic studies of Black Paris, religious discourse, and new technologies in Africa. Since 1969, she has conducted a series of field studies in Congo (Kinshasa), Zambia, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, and France. Dr. Jules-Rosette's major publications include: African Apostles (Cornell, 1975), A Paradigm for Looking (Ablex, 1977), The New Religions of Africa (Ablex, 1979), Symbols of Change (Ablex, 1981), The Messages of Tourist Art (Plenum, 1984), Terminal Signs: Computers and Social Change in Africa (Mouton de Gruyter, 1990), Black Paris: The African Writers' Landscape (Illinois Press, 1998), and Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image (University of Illinois Press). Professor Jules-Rosette has served as a consulting editor for African Arts magazine. She has also served as President of the Semiotic Society of America (1988-89) and is currently the President of the Society for Africanist Anthropology.

Publications:

*Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image (University of Illinois Press, 2007)

*Black Paris: The African Writers' Landscape (University of Illinois Press, 1998)

*Terminal Signs: Computers and Social Change in Africa (Mouton de Gruyter, 1990)

*The Messages of Tourist Art (Plenum, 1984)

*Symbols of Change (Ablex, 1981)

*The New Religions of Africa (Ablex, 1979)

*A Paradigm for Looking (Ablex, 1977)

*African Apostles (Cornell, 1975)