Salim Faraji, assistant professor of Africana studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills, has been invited to present his research on Christianity in ancient Nubia at the 12th Annual International Conference for Nubian Studies, which will be held in August at the British Museum. One of only two nubiologists on the West Coast – the other being Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith at the University of California, Santa Barbara – Faraji will present “Africana Nubiology: Examining Classical Sudanese Traditions in West Africa” at the conference.