Welcome the 2024-2025 Mellon Scholars Cohort
Welcome to the 2024-2025 African American Studies Mellon Scholars cohort.
Upcoming Event: Fireside Chat with Bomani Jones
Join the African American Studies program on Race and Sport, which features Sports Analyst and Host Bomani Jones.
AFAM Student Sophia Williams wins NCBS’ 2025 Terry Kershaw Undergraduate Essay Contest
African American Studies would like to congratulate Sophia Williams who won the 2025 Terry Kershaw Undergraduate Student Essay Contest for her paper “From Colonial Injustice to Contemporary Challenges: Unraveling the Complex Narratives of Beauty, Body Image, and Anti-Blackness among African American Women.” Sophia is a 2023-2024 AFAM Mellon Scholar and AFAM Honors student with a […]
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Dr. Alyssa P. Cole and Dr. Winstead win honorable mention at American Studies 2024 Conference
African American Studies’ Dr. Alyssa P. Cole and Dr. Kevin C. Winstead were awarded honorable mention in the Critical Ethnic Studies paper award from the American Studies Association during their 2024 Annual Conference for their paper “The Unveiling Shadows: Afroskepticism & the Unpacking of War in the Black Paranoid Tradition.” Their abstract is below. During […]
“The Other Book” series to explore Black history in Alachua County
On January 11, this lecture series kicks off with its first of four lectures focusing on the transatlantic passage enslaved Africans experienced on their way to America. The series is named for the “other” book that Black teachers used before schools were integrated.
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Kappa Alpha Psi donate $50,000 to AFAM
The African American Studies program would like to thank the Zeta Phi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. who donated $50,000 to the African American Studies Program endowment during the African American Studies 2024 Convocation. Convocation is annual open house event hosted by African American Studies aimed at exposing the UF community, Gainesville, and […]
Run:\DM.C hosts inaugural event, “Politics, Movement, and Joy: A Meditation on Black Twitter”
On August 29, 2024, the Digital Media and Community Initiative (Run: DM.C) hosted its inaugural event, Politics, Movement, and Joy: A Meditation on Black Twitter, to celebrate the Hulu documentary series Black Twitter. Panelists included Arizona State’s Sarah Florini, Washington University in St. Louis’ Raven Maragh-Lloyd, and Hulu documentary participant Georgia Institute of Technology’s André […]
Dr. Winstead to Present at the 2024 DISCO Summit
Dr. Kevin Winstead will be a featured panelist for the Digital Inquiry Speculation Collaboration Optimism (DISCO) Network’s DISCO Summit 2024. The Summit is a two-day interdisciplinary summer symposium about digital social inequalities, celebrating the network’s third year. Dr. Winstead is a former fellow under Dr. André Brock’s Project on Rhetorics, Equity, Access, and Computational Humanities […]
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African American Studies student named to the Alexander Grass Scholar Research Program
Congratulations to a third-year honors student, Jehlia Andrew-Brown who is majoring in African American Studies and Psychology. She has been accepted into the first cohort of the Alexander Grass Scholars Research Program. This is a new program sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere for undergraduate students interested in conducting research […]
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African American Studies student named 2024-2025 CLAS Scholar
The African American Studies program would like to congratulate African American Studies major, Chalisa Budhai. Selected as a 2024-2025 CLAS Scholars Fellow. The CLAS Scholars Program (CSP) gives undergraduate students an opportunity to work one- on-one with a CLAS faculty member on a research project. Chalisa will be mentored by our own Dr. Kevin Winstead.
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Congratulations to Alumna, Allison Mitchell
UF History and African American Studies and 2016 alumnus Allison Mashell Mitchell was hired as an Assistant Professor of Civil Rights Studies in Africana and American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Allison is a doctoral candidate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and will defend her dissertation in […]
Mellon Foundation Higher Learning Grant Opportunity
The University of Florida African American Studies Mellon Scholars Program will provide 12 African American Studies major students with a high-quality experiential learning program that will help elevate their humanities knowledge, while also developing their skills in research and professional development.
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