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A Product of South Carolina

Despite his meteoric rise through the ranks of academia, Dr. James L. Moore III, isn’t shy about reminding anyone who he comes into contact with, that he’s a product of South Carolina.

September 27, 2018

African-American

Prairie View A&M to Receive $1M for African-American Studies Initiative

With financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, an anonymous donor and an eligible university match, Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) is set to revamp its curriculum with a new African-American Studies Initiative.

September 19, 2018

African-American

Scholar Helps Students See Relevance of Black History

Attending a race conference held at Princeton University was a pivotal moment for Dr. Andrew Rosa, as he discovered his true passion for teaching and interest in African-American studies.

September 17, 2018

African-American

A Scholar Without Borders

As chair of the African American studies department and the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University, Dr. E. Patrick Johnson is a scholar without borders. His research crosses academic disciplines and creative art forms in multiple ways, to the extent that he describes himself only half-jokingly as “an academic trickster.”

June 12, 2018

African-American

Academics Remember Renowned Literary Scholar Marcellus Blount

Former students and professional colleagues are mourning the death of Dr. Marcellus Blount, a well-known scholar of African-American literary and cultural studies who taught at Columbia University since 1985.

May 7, 2018

African-American

Pioneering Historian Mines Black Women’s History

As a young professor at Purdue University in the early 1970s, Dr. Darlene Clark Hine was confronted with a challenge that would ultimately change her career trajectory and position her as one of the nation’s most prominent historians.

March 6, 2018

African-American

Arizona’s James a Pioneer in Inclusion Initiatives

Dr. Stanlie James began her career as an innovative scholar of Black feminism and international human rights.

February 11, 2018

African-American

Emerging Scholar Profile: Curry and the Relevance of Philosophy

Having grown up in a working-class family in Lake Charles, La., Dr. Tommy Curry is no stranger to intellectual adversity.

January 25, 2018

African-American

Tuskegee’s New African-American Studies Minor Crosses Disciplinary Lines

Tuskegee University will introduce an African-American studies minor this fall.

January 17, 2018

African-American

Scholar Studies the Complexity of Black Identity

Dr. Robert Patterson’s passion for education began early. As a young child, he carried a clipboard and wore glasses, as if he were already teaching a classroom.

November 28, 2017

African-American

Temple’s Renaming Decision: Africology Becomes a Department

A leading scholar at Temple University was successful in convincing university officials and the Board of Governors to rename the African American studies department to the Africology and African American studies department.

November 5, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Princeton Professor Cancels Lectures After Speech Leads to Threats

TRENTON, N.J. — A Princeton University professor says she canceled lectures this week after receiving death threats following a commencement address in which she called President Donald Trump “a racist and sexist megalomaniac.” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an assistant professor of African American Studies at the Ivy League school in New Jersey, spoke to graduates at Hampshire […]

June 1, 2017