You are invited to attend the Spring 2022 Virtual Faculty Development Conference featuring Dr. Rik Stevenson. Click here for virtual conference links!
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“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.
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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.
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February 16 – This community listening event is part of an ongoing grant-funded project between WUFT News and the Florida Humanities Council.
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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.
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?
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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.
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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.
On January 6, 2021, violent insurgents stormed the United States Capitol to stop the certification of the presidential election.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
AFA 2000 Introduction to African-American Studies AFA 3110 Key Issues in Black Atlantic Thought AFA The Wire 3303 AFA 3333 Black Power Movement AFA3356 African American Religion AFA 3930 Special Topics AFA 4905 individual Study AFA 4936 Senior Seminar
Thursday, May 6, 2021 3:30 – 5:00 pm Register Here Please RSVP by Wednesday, May 5 On Thursday, May 6, the University of Florida’s African American Studies Program is hosting a virtual graduation ceremony. African American Studies majors who graduated Summer 2020, Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 are encouraged to invite their family and friends to […]
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On April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, TN. The following day over one hundred rebellions occurred across the country including protests on college campuses. By 1968, southern white universities had admitted small numbers of African American students who encountered racism on and off […]
Dr. Scot Brown Thursday, April 1 Pedagogy Talk 12:40 pm – 2:10 pm Location: Virtual Friday, April 2, 2021 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm Research Seminar: “Blues for the 1980s: Roger Troutman & Zapp and Dayton OH” Location: Virtual Dr. Terrance Wooten Thursday, April 1 4:00-5:00pm Research Seminar: “This Might as Well Be Prison:” Homeless Shelters, […]
Tenure Track Search Committee Meetings Assistant or Associate Professor in African American Studies & Artificial Intelligence Monday, February 22, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Friday, February 26, 2:00-3:00 p.m. Monday, March 15, 8:30am – 9:30am. Thursday April 1, 1:15-2:00pm Friday, April 2, 4:30 – 5:30 pm Monday, April 5 11:00 – 11:30 am Friday, April 16 11:00 – 12:00 pm […]
Join Dean David Richardson and three distinguished College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty members who will share their views on research, teaching, and service in a time of a broad national conversation on matters of race.
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A kick-off event for UF’s First-Generation Student Celebration, join Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Dr. Anthony Abraham Jack, who will discuss the challenges faced by first-generation college students at predominantly white universities.
Join us to meet Dr. David A. Canton, our new program director, and discover what the future holds for African American Studies at the University of Florida
In order to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in African American Studies, students must complete 30 credit hours of AFA core and elective courses and fulfill all of the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Canton, who comes to UF from Connecticut College, will also serve as an Associate Professor of History.
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Sankofa: Looking Back and Moving Forward The Journey Continues The Dr. Ronald C Foreman Jr. Symposium Thursday, February 20, 2020 Symposium- Watch it Here The 50th Anniversary Community Celebration Friday, February 21, 2020 Historic Marker Unveiling- Watch it Here Community Celebration-Watch it Here See photos of the Celebration Event Thank you for Celebrating 50 Years […]
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The 2020 College Teaching/Advising Awards honor the exceptional teachers and advisors in each college for the difference they make in students’ lives. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is proud to announce this year’s recipients. Congratulation to Dr. Patricia Hilliard-Nunn, one of the recipients of this Award.
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The African American Studies Program offices are now located in Turlington Hall Room 1012.
On Friday April 19th at 5pm in the Keene Faculty Center in Dauer Hall, the African American Studies Department will co-sponsor a reception to honor Dr. Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons who will retire at the end of the spring semester. Dr. Simmons has been a tireless activist educator for many years as a beginning with her […]
AFA 4940, sec. 7D50 :: Meets Tuesdays, periods 2-3 (9:30am-12:15pm) Students enrolled in this internship will work at the intersections of Ethnic Studies and oral history, conducting interviews, engaging with community members, and helping with the back-end and the public outreach aspects of maintaining a public oral history archive. We will put particular emphasis on […]
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In 2019, the University of Florida’s African American Studies Program will celebrate its 50th anniversary. The program began in 1969 and selected its first director in 1970. The late Dr. Ronald Foreman was a tireless advocate for the program from 1970 until his retirement in 2000. We will host a number of programs this year […]
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