09/23/2022 - Dr. Irvin Hunt has been named a 2022-23 Helen Corley Petit Scholar for his extraordinary record of scholarship and teaching. Each year, LAS selects up to seven recipients across the entire college...
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09/20/2022 - Friday, September 23 @ 12:00pm CST University YMCA Speaker: Kofi Bazzell-Smith, Graduate Student in New Media, College of Art and Design, and Professional Boxer: ...
09/08/2022 - We are pleased to announce that Professor Leonard C. McKinnis has been named a 2022-2023 OpEd Public Voices Fellow. One of 20 scholars selected from across the University of Illinois system to...
08/31/2022 - The Department of African American Studies is excited to announce the addition of a new junior faculty member, Professor Eddie O’Byrn. We welcome Professor Eddie O’Byrn as we continue our commitment...
05/18/2022 - Dr. Bailey sent a message to congratulate graduating students and recognize professors' accomplishments. Read his letter here.
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...
