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OGUNDIRAN RECEIVES FIRST CITIZENS BANK SCHOLARS MEDAL
OGUNDIRAN RECEIVES FIRST CITIZENS BANK SCHOLARS MEDAL
Advisors are Available –Virtually
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
AFRS collaborates with GESP
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 […]
Call for papers–2020 Annual Symposium
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
Ogundiran honored
11th Dr. Bertha Maxwell-Roddey Lecture
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
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 […]
OGUNDIRAN NAMED EDITOR OF AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL REVIEW
Dr. Akin Ogundiran has been named editor-in-chief of the highly ranked African Archaeological Review, the oldest continent-wide journal in African archaeology.
DR. DE LA TORRE PUBLISHED HIS FIRST BOOK
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 […]