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Wednesday, June 23, 2021
The Institute for African American Studies is proud to announce the winners of the 2021 Lee Roy B. Giles Encouragement Award, established in 2010 by his wife, Dr. Freda Scott Giles, Professor Emeritus in the Institute.
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
The Institute for African American Studies proudly recognizes Graduate Certificate Student, Chanara Andrews-Bickers, as this year’s recipient of the R. Baxter Miller Award.
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
The Institute for African American Studies welcomes a new cohort of students pursuing its Graduate Certificate Program this Fall 2021.
Monday, March 22, 2021
In Fall 2020, with generous support from the Willson Center for Humanities and the Arts, the Institute for African American Studies offered a Special Topics course for upper level undergraduates and graduate certificate students focused on
On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, IAAS Director Dr. Carolyn Jones Medine moderated a conversation among four of the Morton Theatre Corporation Defiance Project Award winners: visual artists Noraa James and Broderick Flanigan; musical artist Kxng Blanco; and filmmaker Booker T.
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Study within African American cultural history provides a basis for understanding political, social, and economic relations throughout human history.
