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Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS)
Recent News
Four LSA Faculty Members Named Distinguished University Professors
Vincent L. Hutchings, James M. Joyce, Valerie A. Kivelson, and Anna K. Mapp are among six U-M professors to receive the honor.
Events
Featured
Sep
23
Multi
DAAS Faculty Forum 2026-2027
Fall Schedule
12:00 PM
4701
Haven Hall
Upcoming
Sep
23
DAAS Faculty Forum with Jonathan A. Gomez , Assistant Professor of Music, Department of Musicology
"Theorizing Black Musical Tribute Work”
12:00 PM
4701 Haven Hall (DAAS Conference Room)
Haven Hall
Oct
01
EIHS Lecture: Imagine Lagos: Rethinking the Histories of West African Cities in the Nineteenth Century
Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (Howard University)
4:00 PM
1014
Tisch Hall
Oct
01
The DAAS Zora Neale Hurston Lecture of the Humanities with Edda Fields-Black (Carnegie Mellon)
COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black freedom During the Civil War
4:00 PM
Vandenberg Room
Michigan League
