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Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS)

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DAAS Honors Major

Wangari Maathai Essay Competition

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Accelerated MA Program in Transcultural Studies

What Our Students Say

DAAS Graduate Certificate Program

MIRS: African Studies Specialization

Fellowship and Grant Funding

Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellowship

DAAS SAIO Fellowship for an Incoming Graduate Student

SAIO Summer Research Grant for Current Graduate Students

GSI & GSSA Job Postings

News and Events

Nick Powell, DAAS Major, Writes About Tunde Wey's “Blackness in America” Dinner Project

Student Spotlight

DAAS in Dialogue

Event Spotlight: Isabel Wilkerson’s book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”

New DAAS Faculty

DAAS Spotlight: In Conversation with Emmanuel Saint-Phard, Alum

DAAS Spotlight: In Conversation with Thomas Vance, DAAS Major

DAAS Spotlight: In Conversation with Nora Krinitsky, Director of the Carceral State Project

Heather Ann Thompson, DAAS Professor, Receives the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

Tiffany Harris, Recent DAAS Graduate, Featured in The Record

Damani J. Partridge, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies, Publishes Article in the University of Chicago Press

Faculty Spotlight: Bénédicte Boisseron

“Roots, Routes, and Performative Mobilities: The Next 50 Years of Knowledge Production for Africa and its Diasporas”

Student Spotlight: Ashley Hayes

DAAS Spotlight: In Conversation with Kelly Askew

New Book by Sandra Gunning, Professor Afroamerican and African Studies

Honoring Attica After Half a Century

Faculty Spotlight: Heather Thompson

Faculty Spotlight: Justine Davis

Faculty Spotlight: Scott Poulson-Bryant

Africa Workshop with R. Nanre Nafziger

Aliyah Khan, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, talks Halaloween

In Memory: Julius Scott

DAAS Africa Workshop: November 9, 2021

DAAS Diasporic Dialogues with André Brock - On Race and Technoculture

Faculty Spotlight: Aliyah Khan

Alumni Spotlight: A. Sheree Brown

Student Spotlight: Sewit Yohannes

Niara Sudarkasa: Woman of Many Firsts

Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies, Publishes Chapter in New Book

Omolade Adunbi, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, featured in a PBS Great Decisions

DAAS Statement on Threats to HBCUs

Professor Naomi Andre presents testimony in support of HR 301

Stephen Ward, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Named Recipient 1 of 6 Teams awarded an Anti-Racist Digital Research Initiative Grant

The Power of Collective Activism: In Memory of Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.

Professor Sandra Gunning speaks on NPR's Stateside

Assistant Professor SaraEllen Strongman discusses the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings and Black sisterhood

Professor Stephen Ward speaks on Detroit's census data

Professor Heather Thompson sues NY prisons over ban of Attica uprising book

Associate Professor Omolade Adunbi releases new book on Nigeria

Professor Damani Partridge assists overtaxed Detroit homeowners

Faculty Spotlight: Omolade Adunbi

DAAS Professor Damani Partridge receives Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award

Interview with Dr. Naomi André for “Lift Every Voice and Sing”

Professor Damani Partridge publishes article on White space in Black cities

Assistant Professor SaraEllen Strongman speaks on Black feminists and abortion rights

DAAS Professor Heather Thompson receives LSA Research grant

Interview with Dr. Sandra Gunning on new book “Moving Home: Gender, Travel, and Self-Invention in Nineteenth-Century African Diasporic Literature”

Summer 2022 Anti-Racist Book Club, Featuring Works by Audre Lorde

Many Urbanisms: Divergent Trajectories of Global City Building by Dr. Martin J. Murray

Q&A With the Chair

A Powerful Arts Legacy in Detroit

Student Spotlight: Noah Gross

How Democrats and Republicans Could be Getting the Suburbs Wrong

Why Should a Married Man Fetch Water?

Meet Danielle Williams

Work begins on U-M’s Inclusive History Project

DAAS Chair Moderates Communities and Connection Panel

DAAS' Poulson-Bryant Interviews Renowned Production Designer for "Wondering Wakanda"

Faculty Spotlight: Lydia Kelow-Bennett

DAAS cosponsors event featuring Nikki Giovanni

Multiple DAAS faculty participate in "The Future of Black Studies"

Faculty Spotlight: Marko Mwipopo

Black Studies Matter

Kidada E. Williams delivers 2023 Zora Neale Hurston Lecture

Wayne High receives 2023 Cornerstone, LSA CA awards

New department chair Bénédicte Boisseron looks to the future

DAAS Spotlight: Omowunmi Dada

Alum's Gift Establishes New DAAS Senior Prize

LSA Sustainability Spotlight on AAS 498 with Bénédicte Boisseron

DAAS Student Awards Honor Outstanding Projects

Faculty Spotlight: Gaëtan Thomas, Lecturer in DAAS and History of Art

Faculty Spotlight: Zoë Berman, Assistant Professor/Michigan Society Fellow

Living History Graces DAAS Classroom

Faculty Spotlight: Nana-Yaw Andoh, New DAAS Assistant Professor

From Activism to Academia: GalleryDAAS’ New “DAAS@55” Exhibit Celebrates Department History

Faculty Spotlight: Esther Ginestet, Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Postdoctoral Fellow

DAAS Marks 55th Anniversary with Faculty Forum Series

Staff Spotlight: Symone Campbell and Faye Portis

The Movement Made Us All: Historical Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement and the Current Moment

Derek Peterson among 24 awarded $625,000 by MacArthur Foundation

Scott Ellsworth Featured in Vanderbilt News

Tiya Miles featured in The Detroit Free Press

Dr. Naomi André Receives 7th Annual Shirley Verrett Award

Heather Ann Thompson Article in Newsweek

Heather Ann Thompson on America’s Prisons

Lorna Goodison in BBC World Service

Gender Consciousness Project Students Interview on Michigan Radio

Robin R. Means Coleman interviewed by Horror News Network

Tiya Miles Writes for The New York Times

Yale awards eight writers $165,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes

How a South Carolina Prison Riot Really Went Down

Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France

Magdalena J. Zaborowska featured in Duke University Press

Frieda Ekotto, DAAS Chair, honored at Colorado College

Kelly Askew Calls On Vice-Chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology

Lecturer Nesha Haniff featured in the Detroit Free Press

Heather Ann Thompson featured in Newsweek

New Book by Elisha Renne, Professor Emerita

Bénédicte Boisseron, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Book Featured in Columbia University Press Blog

HIV Monologues talks ending stigmas, education

Omolade Adunbi, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured in ICiR Nigeria

Magdalena J. Zaborowska, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Talks About Book

Magdalena J. Zaborowska, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, on BBC's The Forum

Adam Ashforth, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Publishes Book

Amal Fadlalla, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies, Publishes Book

Frieda Ekotto, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Comparative Literature, Publishes Book

Vincent Hutchings, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured in the Los Angeles Times

Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Anthropology, Featured in BBC Interview

Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of Afroamerican and African studies, Featured in The New York Times

Naomi André, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Publishes Book

Naomi André, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Women’s studies, and the Residential College, Featured in CNN

Julius Scott III, Lecturer of Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured in Public Books

Bénédicte Boisseron, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured in BAR Book Forum

Damani J. Partridge, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured in Public Culture

Derek Peterson, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and History, Featured in New Vision

Anne Pitcher, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured in the Washington Post

Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Associate Professor Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured on BBC Newsday

Naomi André, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Women's Studies, Featured in The New York Times

Michael Awkward, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Talks About the Impact Toni Morrison Left on Contemporary African American Experience

Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Associate Professor Anthropology & Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured on Africa Up Close

Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured in Al Jazeera News

Faculty Spotlight: Oluwatoyin Olanipekun

Heather Thompson, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and History, Featured in The Buffalo News

Naomi André, Professor of Afroamerican and African studies, Women’s studies and the Residential College, Featured in the New York Times

Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Anthropology, & Women's Studies, Talks About Sudan’s new Prime Minister

Derek Peterson, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, and History, Featured in The Guardian (U.K.)

Naomi André, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Women's Studies, Publishes Eulogy About Jessye Norman

Anne Pitcher, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Political Science, Featured in The Washington Post

Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and History, Featured On Michigan Radio

In Memoriam: Fernando Arenas

Scott Ellsworth, Lecturer, Featured in The Atlantic

Alford A. Young, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, and Sociology, Publishes Book

Omolade Adunbi, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Featured in Recent Issue of Africa

In Memory: Evans Young

Professor Damani Partridge explores the universality of Blackness in recent article, podcast

Omolade Adunbi discusses recent book with Global China Pulse

DAAS Professor Frieda Ekotto Honored with LSA Collegiate Professorship

JIT Exchange Performance

GalleryDAAS Opening Reception

Thank You, Dona Arbor

GalleryDAAS Winter Student Art Show

2019 The Annual Zora Neale Hurston lecture for the Humanities

Global Blackness Symposium - Mobilizing “Blackness” From the Haitian Revolution to Now

Ujima: Collective Activism at the University of Michigan

“Ujima: Collective Activism at The University of Michigan” Opens at DAAS Gallery

50th Anniversary Postponement

Now in GalleryDAAS: "Half-Built House" by Laura Taylor

Actress Omowunmi Dada brings Nollywood flair to U-M

DAAS hosts Natasha Gordon-Chipembere for Diasporic Dialogues

Brianna Kennedy, a Senior DAAS Major, Featured in Harvard Journal for African American Public Policy

Student Voices: DAAS Needs Your Input!

Staff Spotlight: Kehinde Enilolobo, Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant (Yoruba)

Elizabeth James, Program Coordinator, Featured in The Michigan Daily

Staff Spotlight: Jaleesa Miller

Staff Spotlight: Rebecca Jackson

Ja'Nelle Jefferson, DAAS Alumna, Opens Wellness Clinic

Sarah Hodin, Alumna, Starts Nonprofit

Statement from the Chair

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Visiting Fellows

Alumni and Friends

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Africa Workshops

Carceral State Project

Lemuel Johnson Center

Adinkra Symbols

Tulsa Race Massacre