05/18/2022 - Dr. Bailey sent a message to congratulate graduating students and recognize professors' accomplishments. Read his letter here.
News
05/18/2022 - Ronald W. Bailey of the Department of African American Studies and Antoinette Burton of The Humanities Institute nominated Dr. Lonnie Bunch III to receive an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from...
05/09/2022 - Dr. Desiree McMillion has been selected as one of the winners of the Ebony Excellence Award at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The Ebony Excellence Award Ceremony is a night...
05/04/2022 - Dr. Esther Ngumbi has been chosen by LAS Honors as the LAS James Scholar Honors Program Faculty Mentor of the Year for 2021-2022. This award recognizes a faculty member who exemplifies the Honors...
04/28/2022 - Dr. Desirée McMillion had the privilege of hosting Dr. Robyn Collymore, University of Illinois (Class of 1982) African American Studies major, in her AFRO 226 Black Women in Contemporary US Society...
04/28/2022 - The American Dance Festival (ADF) is awarding Dr. Kariamu Welsh the Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching. ADF granted her this honor in 2020, but the...
04/07/2022 - Dr. Doris Derby was well-known for her role as an activist in the Civil Rights movement, especially in Mississippi, and as a photographer and artist who captured and conveyed the soul of the movement...
04/05/2022 - Dr. Bobby J. Smith II has been invited to give an in-person talk on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 1:00pm as part of the inaugural Planning Colloquium in the UIUC Department of Urban and Regional...
03/21/2022 - Everyone is invited to the upcoming Staged Reading of Xtigone by Nambi E. Kelley, an African-American playwright. Directed by Charence O'Higgins (MFA Theatre UIUC) and Paul O'Mahony (...
03/07/2022 - Professor Irvin J. Hunt will be presenting on Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement on Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at the Caxton Club in Chicago Illinois. In-...
03/02/2022 - On Friday, March 4 at 3:00, The Center for African Studies is sponsoring, "Africa, Race and the War in Ukraine: An Open Discussion". This will be on Zoom and there will be an opportunity for people...
03/02/2022 - Dr. Bobby J Smith II was invited to give a talk on April 14, 2022 at 6:00pm as part of the inaugural UIUC Metropolitan Food and Environmental Systems Student Association’s (MFSTSA) Talk Series:...
03/01/2022 - Professor Esther Ngumbi, Assistant Professor of Entomology and African American Studies, has informed us of a recent publication milestone. She shared the early manuscript of a recently accepted...
02/25/2022 - Dr. Harrison will be the Keynote Speaker at the 13th Annual Graduate Student Conference where she will present "Education as a Practice for Freedom". The theme of the conference is "Education in...
02/22/2022 - Members of the African American Studies Department attended the LAS New Faculty and Newly Promoted Faculty Reception in the Fall of 2021. Pictured left to right: AFRO Head Ronald Bailey, LAS Dean...
