Featured Event
Join us on Friday, January 23rd for a day-long symposium focused on the life and legacy of Reginald D. Butler, marking the publication of his influential, but never published manuscript, The Evolution of a Rural Free Black Community: Goochland County, Virginia, 1728-1832 (University of Virginia Press, 2025).
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Guilherme Lemos, a Woodson post-doctoral fellow, organized an event focused on capoeira, which featured in UVA Today: ‘Body, space and memory’: Capoeira comes to Grounds
AAS Program
Naseemah Mohamed's course "Tracing Your Genealogy" was profiled in a UVA Today article. The course will be offered in Spring 2026 and will be adopted into the Engagements curriculum next academic term.
Over the course of its 40 year history, the Woodson Institute has advanced African American and African Studies around the world by transforming the professoriate, training the next generation of scholars, and educating the general public about issues of race, social justice, and inequality.
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