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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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Mentoring At-Risk Youth Summer Course

In summer session B 2016, Dr. Vincent Adejumo taught a service-learning course entitled “Mentoring At-Risk Youth”. This service-learning course entails students at the University of Florida critically analyzing concepts and theories that pertain to youth who exhibit behaviors that are consistent with being at-risk. After three days of lecture, the students spent their Thursdays and […]