Student News

The African American Studies Program was well represented at the 2025 Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) conference.

On November 19th, 2024, the AFA program welcomed Dr. Mar’tina Wimberly and Dr. Erich T. Wyckoft to discuss the ways social science degrees can be an effective discipline for medical training.

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 […]

The African American Studies Program congratulates Samuel Horton, who was named the 2024-2025 University Scholars Program Scholar. Sam is an African American studies major and is on the executive board of the Sankofa Society. The University Scholars Program presents undergraduate students with an opportunity to work one-on-one with UF faculty to pursue fundamental research and […]

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.

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 […]

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. 

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.