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Monday November 3, 2025

Upcoming Events

Thursday February 20, 2025

Join us as we welcome Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens on March 4, 2025 as our Women’s History Month Speaker. The event will be held from 5:00 pm-6:30 pm in Ustler Hall.

Summer 2025 and Fall 2025 Course Offerings

Thursday February 20, 2025

The African American Studies Program has a robust roster of classes. See our upcoming summer and fall course offerings. Summer 2025 Courses

Stay in Touch

Thursday February 20, 2025

We’d love for you to stay abreast of the latest AFA happenings. Connect with us on social media or contact us at African American Studies. The African American Studies Program at the University of Florida depends upon gifts from alumni and friends to fund student and faculty travel, research, and lecture series.

Understanding Our Students: Evidence-Based Practices for Successful Learning

Monday April 25, 2022

You are invited to attend the Spring 2022 Virtual Faculty Development Conference featuring Dr. Rik Stevenson. Click here for virtual conference links!

Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

Tuesday February 15, 2022

“Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War” traces the roots, routes, and reverberations of the largest slave insurrection in the eighteenth-century British Empire.

Getting Kapped: Institutional Racism and the National Football League

Tuesday February 15, 2022

Join us for a discussion on the lack of Black head coaches in the National Football League. This is a free event and will be held at Pugh Hall in the McKay Auditorium.

Black Places: Learning from Black Campus Life

Monday January 31, 2022

February 22 – In this talk, Dr. Tichavakunda highlights pressing findings from his year-long ethnography of Black engineering students at a historically White institution, Black Campus Life.

20 Years of Studying Slavery and the University: What Now?

Friday January 28, 2022

Examining histories of race and racism in higher education has become a necessary act on many college campuses. But after twenty years of these studies, have they transformed the work of our universities?

Forcing Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence

Monday January 24, 2022

Dr. Kellie Carter Jackson, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, will discuss the conditions that led some black abolitionists to believe slavery might only be abolished by violent force. Her research is the first to explore black abolitionists’ tactical use of violence.

Book Launch And Signing on January 27, 2022 – African American Studies: 50 Years At The University Of Florida

Wednesday January 12, 2022

African American Studies: 50 Years at the University of Florida is the first book to explore the creation and development of an African American Studies program at a major university.

Killing King Again: Race, Power and the Cost of Unfulfilled Dreams

Friday December 17, 2021

On January 6, 2021, violent insurgents stormed the United States Capitol to stop the certification of the presidential election.

Release of New Book: African American Studies: 50 Years at the University of Florida

Friday October 29, 2021

African American Studies: 50 Years at the University of Florida provides an impactful overview of African American Studies; documents the research of Black faculty at UF; examines how African American Studies encourages community engagement and service; contains testimonies from community elders; and includes reflections by and about prominent UF alumni such as Judge Stephan Mickle […]

Speaker Series: Rethinking the Public Sphere 2021-2022

Tuesday September 14, 2021

Co-sponsored by the UF African American American Studies Program, this multi-year series responds to current challenges to rational public debate. Following Part II of the series in 2020-2021 entitled “Data & Democracy,” and Part I in 2019-2020 “Race and the Promise of Participation,” the 2021-22 speakers series turns to the question of transforming institutions in […]

Welcome Dr. Courtney Moore Taylor

Friday July 30, 2021

Dr. Courtney Moore Taylor will be joining the Faculty in the Fall of 2021 as Lecturer of African American Studies. Dr. Taylor received her Bachelor of Arts degree in History from North Carolina Central University (1999) and her Master of Arts in American History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) (2003). Upon […]