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OGUNDIRAN RECEIVES FIRST CITIZENS BANK SCHOLARS MEDAL

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OGUNDIRAN RECEIVES FIRST CITIZENS BANK SCHOLARS MEDAL

Boaz’s New Book

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Danielle Boaz has has a New book

AFRS collaborates with GESP

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AFRS and GESP are collaborating About GESP “The Global Engagement Scholars Program (GESP) is an opportunity for students to demonstrate their Global competency through participation in academic, cio-curricular and international engagement activities. The GESP is coordinated by the Office of International Programs and the Department of Global Studies. Students will learn how to conduct basic […]

Advisors are Available –Virtually

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Virtual Advising: Find Your Advisor Undergraduate Advisor Dr. Debra C. Smith debrasmi@uncc.edu Honors Advisor Dr. Oscar de la Torre Eodelator@uncc.edu Graduate Studies Advisor Dr. Danielle Boaz dboaz@uncc.edu

Call for papers–2020 Annual Symposium

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Call for Papers The University of North Carolina, Africana Studies Department and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program invites you to submit a proposal for our 2020 symposium. Theme: Imagining Futures: Black Girls and Women at the Intersections The Africana Studies Department and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at UNC Charlotte invites you to […]

Dr. Akin Ogundiran honored as Chancellor’s Professor

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Ogundiran honored

11th Dr. Bertha Maxwell-Roddey Lecture

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Speaker: Dr. Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards Assistant Professor, Duke University’s School of Medicine and Associate Director of Research, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity “Black Women and Reproductive Justice: A Lifelong Health Issue” October 24, 2019 4:00-6:00 p.m. Cone Center: McKnight Hall 320

OJAIDE’S “SONG OF MYSELF” WON THE 2018 WOLE SOYINKA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN AFRICA

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Tanure Ojaide, the Frank Graham Porter Professor of Africana Studies, is co-recipient of the 2018 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. Awarded by the Lumina Foundation, the Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa is a pan-African writing prize given biennially to the best literary work produced by an African. Soyinka, who presented the honor […]

DR. DE LA TORRE PUBLISHED HIS FIRST BOOK

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The People of the River: Identity and Environment in Black Amazonia, 1835-1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 2018). The book is a social and environmental history of Africa-descended people in Brazil’s Amazonian forest. It is a story of the difficult journey from slavery to peasantry, and how Black Amazonians used their environment to forge new […]

OGUNDIRAN NAMED EDITOR OF AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL REVIEW

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Dr. Akin Ogundiran has been named editor-in-chief of the highly ranked African Archaeological Review, the oldest continent-wide journal in African archaeology.