Nah Dove

Nah Dove

  • College of Liberal Arts

    Africology and African American Studies

    Assistant Professor

    Affiliated Faculty

    Programs
    • Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
Office Location

Gladfelter Hall, 816

Phone

(267) 270- 8548

Expertise

Afrocentric Theory, African Womanism,  Culture, Cultural Orientation, White Supremacy as Cultural Construct, Female and Male Complementarity, Matriarchy, Patriarchy, Ancient African Beliefs, Maaticity, Afrocentric Schools

Biography

Dr Nah Dove is a proud mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. She has lived in Ghana, Nigeria, Canada, the U.S., and the UK. She graduated with a PhD from the State University of New York, Buffalo, with a focus on African Cultural orientation, First Nations Studies Black Women's Studies, African American Studies and Education. Nah Dove is an African Womanist and has written articles, book chapters, encyclopedic entries, and 3 books, African Mothers: Bearers of Culture, Makers of Social Change (1998), The Afrocentric School (a Blueprint) (2021) and co-authored Being Human Being: Transforming the Race Discourse (2021) with Dr Molefi Kete Asante. Nah Dove’s accomplishments include her involvement in promoting the development of African-centered/Afrocentric schools in the UK, Brazil and US. Dr Nah Dove is an Assistant Professor of Africology at Temple University with a focus on African Culture, African/Black Women as potential mothers, Afronographic research methods, and Africological episteme.

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

Books

  • 2023 - "Mães Afrikanas: Portadoras da Cultura, Agentes da Mudança Social", Brazil: Editorio Ananse. (Afrikan Mothers, New York: SUNY Press, translated to Portuguese and published in Brazil.)
  • 2021 - Dove, N. & Asante M. K. Being Human Being: Transforming the Race Discourse. N.Y.: Universal Write Publications.
  • 2021 - The Afrocentric School: A Blueprint. N.Y.: Universal Write Publications.
  • 1998 - Afrikan Mothers: Bearers of Culture, Makers of Social Change. N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

Book Contribution

  • 2019. “Race and Sex, Growing up in the UK”. In Busby, M.  (Ed.), New Daughters of Africa. Oxford.: Myriad Editions.

Book Chapters

  • 2019 - “Race and Sex. Growing up in the UK”. In Busby, M. (Ed.), New Daughters of Africa, An international anthology of writings by women of African descent. p. 67-72.
  • 2007 - “African Mothers: A case study of Northern Ghanaian Women”. In Mazama, A. (Ed.), Africa in the 21st Century, toward a new future. N.Y.: Routledge. Chapter 9, p.155-188.
  • 2003 - “Defining African Womanism” In Mazama, A. (Ed.), The Afrocentric Paradigm. NJ, U.S.: Africa World Press, p.165-185.
  • 1998 - “An African Centered Critique of Marx’s Logic” In Atlschuler (Ed.), The Living Legacy of Marx, Durkheim, & Weber: Applications and Analyses of Classical Sociological Theory by Modern Social Scientists. U.S.: Gordian Knot Books, University of Nebraska Press, p.32-47.
  • 1996 - “Understanding Education for Cultural Affirmation”. In Roberson, E. (Ed.), To Heal a People: African Scholars Defining a New Reality. Baltimore, MD: U.S., Kujichagulia Press.
  • 1994 - “The Emergence of Black Supplementary Schools as Forms of Resistance to Racism in the UK”. In Shujaa, M. (Ed.), Too Much Schooling, Too Little Education: A Paradox of White Society. NJ, U.S.: Africa World Press. Chapter 14, p.343-361. Vol. 27, No. 4. January

Courses Taught

2024

  • History and Significance of Race in America
  • Readings in African American Social Thought

2023

  • History and Significance of Race in America
  • Theories and Methods in African American Studies
  • Mass Media and the Black Community

2022

  • Ethnographic Methods (graduate)
  • The Black Woman (undergraduate)
  • Introduction to Africology (undergraduate)
  • Seminar on the African American Woman

2021

  • Theories and Methods
  • The Black Woman (undergraduate)
  • Introduction to Africology (undergraduate)
  • The Black Child (undergraduate)
  • The Black Family (undergraduate)
  • Seminar on the African American Woman

2020

  • Ethnographic Methods (graduate)
  • Contemporary Black Poets (undergraduate)
  • Mass Media and the Black Community (undergraduate)
  • Representing Race (undergraduate)
  • The Black Woman (undergraduate)
  • The Black Family (undergraduate)
  • Representing Race (undergraduate)

2019

  • Theories and Methods
  • Contemporary Black Poets
  • The Black Woman
  • Mass Media and the Black Community

Additional Accolades:

  • Merit Award for Teaching
  • Selected for faculty merit award for exceptional performance for 2020-2021 academic year.
  • Selected for faculty merit award for exceptional performance for 2021-2022 academic year.
  • Independent Studies Courses