Professor Samba Camara is the winner of a 2022 Junior Faculty Development Award. This honor is one of UNC-Chapel Hill’s most prestigious awards and recognizes the high merit of research proposals submitted by nominees. Professor Camara’s work deals with … Read more

  Professor Claude Clegg’s fourth book, The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama, was just published. It was recently featured in the Carolina Arts & Sciences Magazine.

    Linkages is the newsletter of the Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies. It is published annually and showcases the work and activities of our faculty, students, and staff. Our consolidated issue for 2014 – 2020 can … Read more

Statement on the Board of Trustees’ Decision – Nikole Hannah-Jones The faculty of the Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill stand in solidarity with the faculty of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media in … Read more

SOUTH EAST AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES FORUM (SEALLF) 2021 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE – CALL FOR PAPERS “AFRICAN LANGUAGES, LITERATURES & GLOBAL MODERNITIES” SEALLF CALL FOR PAPERS[89] The 11th annual meeting of the South East African Languages and Literatures Forum (SEALLF) will … Read more

Congratulations to Dr. Kia Caldwell for her recent article publication titled “Black Brazilian Researchers and Activists Respond to Covid-19.” The article was published on Black Perspectives, an award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society. The article can be … Read more

The Department of African, African American, & Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks to hire a historian who specializes in American slavery, whose work focuses on the African American experience, and who is able … Read more

Congratulations to Dr. Kia Caldwell and co-author, Justice Emily Chavez for their latest published book titled “Engaging the African Diaspora in K-12 Education” published by Peter Lang Academic Publishers (<a href="https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/69300?rskey=7JHAoQ

Congratulations to Dr. Lydia Boyd for the following recent publication:  her co-edited book, Legislating Gender and Sexuality in Africa: Human Rights, Society and the State published by the University of Wisconsin Press (https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5876.htm)