Africana Studies

Scott Hancock, currently associate professor of History and Africana Studies at Gettysburg College, came to Gettysburg College in 2001. His scholarly interests focus on the African American experience from the mid-seventeenth century through the Civil War. His work considers African Americans’ engagement with the law, and incorporates other disciplinary perspectives such as law & society and geography. He is particularly interested in how black interaction with the law in a variety of ways, from small disputes in lower courts to escaping via the underground railroad, shaped U.S. society. Some of his work has appeared in the anthologies Paths to Freedom; We Shall Independent Be; Slavery, Resistance, Freedom; The Civil War and the Summer of 2020, and in the journal Civil War History.

AFS Courses Taught:

• AFS 130    Introduction to African-American Studies
• AFS 331   Africana Intellectual History
• Hist 238  African American History Survey
• Hist 346   Slavery, Rebellion and Emancipation in the Atlantic World