Bennetta Jules-Rosette, Professor
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

Professor Jules-Rosette is the Director of the
African & African-American Studies Research Project

AAASRP office phone: 858-822-0265
AAASRP Events

Classes to be taught in 2007/08:

Fall 2007
SOCA 105/SOCG 227: Ethnographic Film: Media Methods

Winter 2008
SOCD 188A - Community and Social Change in Africa

Spring 2008
SOCG 232 -Advanced 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 Project. As Project 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:
* 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 (University of Illinois Press, 1998)

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

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