Late 1980s and 1990s > African-American Studies
Manning Marable and African-American Studies
Historian and African-American Studies professor Manning Marable was hired in 1993 to make good on Columbia's post-1968 promise to create a robust program in African-American Studies. For Marable, Columbia's offer was a long-awaited opportunity to create a new kind of research institute, one that would unearth the political-economic roots of social injustice. He founded the Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS) in 1993 and served as its director until 2003.
Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS)
Founded by Manning Marable in 1993, the Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS) is an academic resource center. IRAAS administers Columbia's undergraduate and master's degree programs in African-American Studies, sponsors academic conferences, lectures and forums, and produces scholarly publications, such as SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, which was distributed in the United States and internationally from 1995 to 2011.
