AFA Offices Have Moved to 1012 Turlington Hall
The African American Studies Program offices are now located in Turlington Hall Room 1012.
Reception Honoring Dr. Zoharah Simmons
On Friday April 19th at 5pm in the Keene Faculty Center in Dauer Hall, the African American Studies Department will co-sponsor a reception to honor Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons who will retire at the end of the spring semester. Dr. Simmons has been a tireless activist educator for many years as a beginning with her […]
African American Studies Offers New Summer C Internship
AFA 4940, sec. 7D50 :: Meets Tuesdays, periods 2-3 (9:30am-12:15pm) Students enrolled in this internship will work at the intersections of Ethnic Studies and oral history, conducting interviews, engaging with community members, and helping with the back-end and the public outreach aspects of maintaining a public oral history archive. We will put particular emphasis on […]
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UF African American Studies Program Celebrates 50 Years!
In 2019, the University of Florida’s African American Studies Program will celebrate its 50th anniversary. The program began in 1969 and selected its first director in 1970. The late Dr. Ronald Foreman was a tireless advocate for the program from 1970 until his retirement in 2000. We will host a number of programs this year […]
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December 2018 African American Studies Graduates
Congratulations to the December 2018 graduates with either a major or minor in African American Studies. Excellent work and a job well done!
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Remembering the Life and Legacy of Dr. Mildred Hill-Lubin
Dr. Mildred Hill-Lubin, a friend of and advocate for the African American Studies Program, passed away recently in Gainesville. She began her teaching career at Paine College in 1962 and taught there until 1972. When pursuing her doctorate in English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, she was recruited to come to the Department of […]
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African Americans in Paris Spring Break Course
Dr. Sharon Austin teaches the African Americans in Paris class during the spring break of each year. If you would like information, please contact her at polssdw@ufl.edu. You can also find videos from the class on the UF African American Studies Program’s youtube page The class studies the history, culture, and politics of African Americans […]
Honoring the Life and Legacy of Virgil Hawkins
On November 1, 2018, the UF African American Studies Program will honor the late civil rights pioneer Virgil Hawkins from 2pm-3:30pm in the Chamber Room of the Reitz Union. Attorney Harley Hermann and members of Mr. Hawkins family will discuss his life’s work as an activist. As a result of Mr. Hawkins’ 1949 class-action lawsuit, […]
Panel Commemorating 60 Years of Desegregation on September 27th
On Thursday September 27, 2018 at 6pm in the Reitz Union Second Floor Auditorium (686 Museum Road), the African American Studies Program will commemorate sixty years of desegregation. In 1958, George Starke became the first black student at UF. We are inviting a panel of alumni to discuss their experiences as minority students here. The […]
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Dr. Manoucheka Celeste Wins A Second Book Award!
Dr. Manoucheka Celeste, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Gender, Women’s Studies, and Sexualities Research, recently won the Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association for her book, Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora: Travelling Blackness (Routledge 2017). This Award is given to “the most outstanding scholarly book published during […]
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Dr. Sharon Austin’s Promotion to Full Professor
The UF African American Studies Program congratulates its Director, Dr. Sharon Austin, for her promotion to full professor. She has also received a University of Florida Term Professorship. Dr. Austin has been a UF employee since 2001 and teaches courses in African American Studies and Political Science. Please join us in congratulating her.
AFA Faculty Win Grants!
Several of the African American Studies core faculty members, affiliate faculty members, and advisory board members are members of research teams that have been awarded Intersections Grants from the Mellon Foundation (organized by the Center for the Humanities and Public Sphere). See the information below for information about each of the four grants: The African American Studies faculty, affiliates, […]
Welcome Dr. Ashley Robertson Preston
Dr. Ashley Robertson Preston will join the African American Studies faculty this fall. She received a doctorate in African Diaspora History/Public History from Howard University. This fall, Dr. Preston will teach two sections of Key Issues of Black Atlantic Thought and Mary McLeod Bethune: Black Women and Social Activism. Welcome to the Gator nation Dr. […]
Congratulations Graduates!
The African American Studies Program congratulates the students who have graduated during the 2017-18 academic year. Go Gators! December 2017 Graduates with the Major Andres Arroyo Charly Cadet Shannon Lewis DeAunte Fox Steve Jolly Shakera Latimore Mary Park, African American Studies and Political Science Mayleen Sanchez, African American Studies and Political Science Erin Smith, African […]
Congratulations Dr. Patricia Hilliard-Nunn
On Friday April 20th, Nkwanda Joh, the Director of the Cultural Arts Coaliton, Inc. presented Dr. Patricia Hilliard-Nunn with the Andrew Mickle Service Award for teaching history. She received this award at the opening reception for the Annual Fifth Avenue Arts Festival. Dr. Hilliard-Nunn is a Senior Lecturer in the UF African American Studies Program. […]
Dr. Sharon Austin Publishes a New Book!
Dr. Sharon Austin, Director of the African American Studies Program and Associate Professor of Political Science, recently published her third book. The State University of New York at Albany Press published The Caribbeanization of Black Politics: Race, Group Consciousness, and Political Participation in America in February 2018. The book examines the political participation and social […]
Dr. Sharon Austin Writes Articles for The Conversation
On February 7, 2018, Dr. Sharon Austin published an article entitled, “Black Americans Most Left Behind by Progress since Dr. King’s Death” in The Conversation. Established in 2011, the Conversation allows academicians, researchers, and others to publish online articles that provoke discussions about certain topics. Approximately, 20,000 individuals viewed this article which can be found at https://theconversation.com/black-americans-mostly-left-behind-by-progress-since-dr-kings-death-89956. […]
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Congratulations Sharon Burney
African American Studies Program Assistant, Sharon Burney, has been awarded a Superior Accomplishment Award. Please join us in congratulating her for a job well done.
Dr. Vincent Adejumo Wins Teacher of the Year Award
Dr. Vincent Adejumo is one of the recipients of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teacher of the Year Award. Dr. Adejumo has been teaching several courses for the African American Studies Program since 2015, including Black Masculinity, Black Wall Street, Introduction to African American Studies, Mentoring At-Risk Youth, and the Wire. Congratulations Dr. […]
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Congratulations Dr. Celeste
Dr. Manoucheka Celeste, Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Program and the Center for Women’s Studies, Gender, and Sexualities has been awarded a term professorship. Her book, Travelling Blackness:Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora, won the best book award at the 2017 National Communication Association Outstanding Book Award from the African American […]
African American Studies Program Welcomes Abdia do Nascimento Awardees
The prestigious Abdias Nascimento Award, named after the Brazilian writer, scholar, activist, and politician who played a significant role in the emergence of Black Studies as an academic discipline in the United States, Europe, and Puerto Rico, has provided funding for Brazilian undergraduate, graduate students and researchers from NEAB-UDESC (http://www.faed.udesc.br/?id=1844) to study at the University […]
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Short Video Describes UF AFA Program
University of Florida student, James Worthy, produced a short video that describes the benefits of taking African American Studies courses at UF. You can view it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbntjflYzrc&feature=share.
AFA Majors Excel at Track and Field
African American Studies majors Andres Arroyo, KeAndre Bates, Tyjah Eady, Eric Futch, Timothy (TJ) Hayes, and Carlos Miranda have been competing in several track and field events during the summer 2017 track and field season. The Florida Gators men’s track and field team won the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championship for the second straight season and fourth time […]