Congratulations to Dr. Alyssa P. Cole: Recipient of the 2026 Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund

Sunday December 14, 2025

AFAM proudly celebrates Dr. Cole, recipient of the CLAS 2026 Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund. This award supports Dr. Cole’s groundbreaking research in Black women’s health practices advancing critical conversations on race, medicine, and innovation. Her achievement reflects the AFAM’s commitment to excellence and innovation in the humanities.

Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Courtney Moore Taylor Publishes Groundbreaking Research in Journal of Southern History

Monday August 25, 2025

AFAM celebrates Dr. Courtney Moore Taylor’s latest article, “A Badge of Slavery: Clothing and Enslaved Teenage Girls’ Identity Formation.”

Dr. Alyssa P. Cole gives the 2024 Alyce Hunley Whayne lecture

Tuesday July 16, 2024

Dr. Alyssa Cole recently gave the 2024 Alyce Hunley Whayne lecture entitled “Movement Before the Movement: Black Women’s Health Activism in Kansas City” at Kansas University as part of the Alyce Hunley Whayne Visiting Researchers fellowship. The Whayne Scholars Program supports visiting scholars and researchers from across the country requiring the use of Spencer Research […]

Dr. Rik Stevenson Denounces Systematic Racism on Juneteenth at Bo Diddley Plaza

Wednesday July 3, 2024

Dr. Kevin Winstead named 2024-2025 Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies Fellow

Wednesday July 3, 2024

Dr. Kevin Winstead has been named a Center for Black, Brown, and Queer (BBQ+) Studies 2023-2024 Fellow. BBQ+ activates, connects, and mobilizes educators, researchers, and activists from marginalized communities. The BBQ+ Academic Fellowship Program provides mentorship, career development advice, and writing support to underrepresented scholars (broadly and intersectionally defined) as they establish themselves within academic institutions […]

Dr. Barnes awarded the 2024-2025 CES Grant

Monday July 1, 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Riche’ Barnes, who has been awarded a Center for European Studies course enhancement grant for 2024-2025. The CES grant is to develop African American Studies’ African Diaspora course. The course considers the history, culture, and politics of Africans on the continent and African-descended peoples across the world including in the U.S., the […]

Congratulations to Dr. Drew Brown

Monday July 1, 2024

The African American Studies program would like to congratulate Dr. Drew Brown, recipient of the University of Florida’s Humanities Scholarship Enrichment Fund (HSEF). The HSEF awards support new research activity that is competitive for National Endowment for the Humanities funding. 

Dr. Kevin Winstead receives funding for Run:DM.C initiative

Friday April 12, 2024

The Digital Inquiry Speculation Collaboration Optimism (DISCO) Network awards African American Studies and Sociology Assistant Professor of Critical Media and AI Studies professor Dr. Kevin C. Winstead $20,000 to fund the Run:/DM.C initiative. The Run:/Digital Media and Community (Run:/DM.C) initiative at the University of Florida is being constituted with a mission of fostering a community […]

UF students, faculty help transcribe 8,731 pages for Frederick Douglass Day

Thursday April 4, 2024

Dr. Alyssa P. Cole named 2024 Alyce Hunley Whayne Visiting Researcher

Tuesday April 2, 2024

The African American Studies program would like to congratulate Dr. Alyssa P. Cole, winner of the 2024 Alyce Hunley Whayne Visiting Researcher Award. The award facilitates research and use of the University of Kansas Library collections. Dr. Cole will use the award this summer to research Black hospitals in Kansas City during the early 20th […]

Black Strategic Mothering and the School “Choice” Marketplace

Tuesday March 12, 2024

The Rutgers University Blackademics Faculty Group and Gender Studies present UF African American Studies’ Dr. Riché Barnes.

The Real Cost of Racial Justice: Black Women Fundraisers and the Radical Organizing Tradition

Tuesday March 5, 2024

Join us for the African American Studies Mellon Foundation Speaker Series featuring Dr. Tanisha C. Ford, professor of history at The Graduate Center, City University of New York on the history of Black Women’s philanthropy and organizing.

Dr. Rik Stevenson speaks at Sharon Baptist Church

Saturday February 17, 2024

Dr. Rick Stevenson, a university professor from Florida, discusses the Nubian experience and offers an Afrocentric perspective on Scripture.

Traumatic Repercussions: Black Women Birthing and Obstetric Racism

Friday January 19, 2024

Dr. Ronald Foreman Lecture Series presents Dr. Dána-Ain Davis, Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College. Graduate faculty in Anthropology and Psychology at the City University of New York {CUNY}, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society.

Sharony Andrews Green, The Chase And Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston In Honduras

Thursday January 18, 2024

Join us on February 23 for a discussion of Green’s book. The book follows Hurston’s little-known anthropological expedition to excavate Mayan ruins in Honduras in the 1940s. Green will be joined by two discussants: Dr. Riché J. Daniel Barnes, Associate Professor of Anthropology, and History PhD Candidate Joe Angelillo.