Welcome the 2024-2025 Mellon Scholars Cohort
Welcome to the 2024-2025 African American Studies Mellon Scholars cohort.
Upcoming Event: Fireside Chate with Bomani Jones
Join the African American Studies program on Race and Sport, which features Sports Analyst and Host Bomani Jones.
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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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Digital Media and Community Initiative
Creating community and Training for Researchers at the intersection of Black Culture and Digital Studies The Digital Media and Community (Run:\DM.C) initiative brings African American and digital studies together to expand upon both fields. It makes digital studies more inclusive of African American inquiry and culture and enriches African American studies research with new methods, […]
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 […]
Mellon AFAM Scholars Program
Developing Culturally Competent Leaders for the Future The African American Studies (AFAM) Program at the University of Florida provides students with a high-quality education delivered by faculty who are experts in their fields. It provides students with a variety of innovative courses by applying creative cultural methods of teaching while examining the African American experience. […]
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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Dr. Kevin Winstead receives funding for Run:\DM.C initiative
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 […]
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AFAM Mellon Scholars Present at National Black Studies Conference
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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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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