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 […]
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. 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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The African American Studies Program is proud to introduce five of our majors who presented their research at the 47th Annual National Council for Black Studies Conference (NCBS) held on March 22-25, 2023. Presenters range from a first year student to a recent graduate.
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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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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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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 […]
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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