Fall 2017
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African American and African Studies Program
AAS 1010 Introduction to African American and African Studies I (4)
Instructor: Kwame E. Otu
Tues./Tues. 12:30-1:45, Minor Hall 125
African American and African Studies Diploma Ceremony
American and African Studies Diploma Ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 20 at 12:45 p.m. following Final Exercises on the Lawn.
You must come straight from the lawn ceremony in order to have time to line up in the foyer of Minor Hall and prepare to enter the auditorium. Regardless of weather, our diploma ceremony will take place in the Minor Hall auditorium (Minor 125)
There will be a reception following the ceremony.
News on Fellows: Lyndsey Beutin (Pre-Doc) publishes article in Open Democracy
Lyndsey Beautin (Carter G. Woodson pre-doctoral fellow) is the author of an essay on how sensational, sexualized imagery is often held up as the greatest sin of anti-trafficking awareness campaigns, but that bad data masquerading as authoritative fact is far more insidious. The essay was published on the Open Democracy media platform:
Enterprising Southerners
Rituals of Race
Coming of Age in Utopia
News on Fellows: Tony Perry (Pre-Doc) published an article in Slavery & Abolition
Tony C. Perry (Carter G. Woodson Institute pre-doctoral fellow) published an article in Slavery & Abolition – A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies this month on how slaves and slaveholders mobilized cold weather against each other in contests over power:
Professor Andrew Kahrl featured in UVA Today
The African American Great Migration Reverses Course
Meet the Fellows 2016
Video from the annual event "Meet the Fellows" to welcome new members of the Carter G. Woodson's distinguished fellowship program.
Extended description of the Fellows and their projects (in order of appearance):
Tiffany Barber Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Art and Art History) University of Rochester "Undesirability and the Value of Blackness in Contemporary Art"
Lyndsey Beutin Pre-Doctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania (Annenberg School for Communication) "If Slavery’s Not Black: The stakes of the U.S. State Department’s campaign against human trafficking"
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