Fall '26: AAS Brown Bag "First Fridays" Speaker Series
We welcome you to the Fall 2026 Brown Bag Speaker Series. Join us for great presentations, conversation, and food—lunch will be provided! Read More
News And Events
Congratulations to Professor Adejunmobi, for her forthcoming book, "African Literature in Transition: Genres of African Literature 1900-2020"
The Department of African American and African Studies is proud to celebrate Professor Moradewun Adejunmobi for her work in editing "African Literature in Transition." Read more about the book below. Read More
Spring '26 Brown Bag "First Fridays" Speaker Series
The speaker series features research talks from our own UC Davis AAS faculty and Designated Emphasis Affiliate Faculty across departments including the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. We also have a visiting associate professor of history and Director of the African and African American Studies Program from the University of Memphis *Lunch is provided. Read More
Winter '26 Brown Bag "First Fridays" Speaker Series
The speaker series features research talks from our own UC Davis AAS faculty and Designated Emphasis Affiliate Faculty and Graduate Students across departments including African American and African Studies, English, History. *Lunch is provided. Read More
Spring '25: AAS "First Fridays" Speaker Series
Join us for the "First Fridays" during Winter Quarter in Hart 3201 from 12:00-1:30pm. The speaker series features research talks from our own UC Davis AAS faculty and Designated Emphasis Affiliate Faculty across departments including Sociology, Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, French and Comparative Literature, School of Education, History, and Community and Regional Development. This Spring block of the speaker series features Clare Cannon, Milmon Harrison, and Darrel Degand.
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Winter '25: AAS "First Fridays" Speaker Series
Join us for the "First Fridays" during Winter Quarter in Hart 3201 from 12:00-1:30pm. This block of the speaker series features French/Comparative Literature Associate Professor Toby Warner, History Associate Professor Traci Parker, and Sociology Associate Professor Orly Clergé. Read More
Fall '24: AAS "First Fridays" Speaker Series
This year's AAS Brown Bag Speaker Series features research talks from our own UC Davis AAS faculty and Designated Emphasis Affiliate Faculty across departments including Sociology, Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, French and Comparative Literature, School of Education, History, and Community and Regional Development. Read More
AAS 2023-2024 Newsletter
The African & African American Studies 2023-2024 newsletter is here! This newsletter highlights department events, student involvement, faculty accomplishments, and so much more! Read More
Cancelled: Spring 2024: AAS New Directions in African American and African Studies Speaker Series with Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom
Welcome to the AAS Spring 2024 New Directions Speaker Series! We are proud and honored to have such an amazing group of inspirational speakers present their research and life's work. Thank you to our co-sponsors: the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and the Manetti Shrem Museum. Read More
Spring 2024: AAS New Directions in African American and African Studies Speaker Series with Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens
Welcome to the AAS Spring 2024 New Directions Speaker Series! We are proud and honored to have such an amazing group of inspirational speakers present their research and life's work. Thank you to our co-sponsors: the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and the Manetti Shrem Museum. Read More
Spring 2024: AAS New Directions in African American and African Studies Speaker Series with Dr. France Winddance Twine
Welcome to the AAS Spring 2024 New Directions Speaker Series! We are proud and honored to have such an amazing group of inspirational speakers present their research and life's work. Thank you to our co-sponsors: the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and the Manetti Shrem Museum. Read More
Winter 2024: AAS New Directions in African American and African Studies Speaker Series with Dr. Gina Ulysse (Postponed / To Be Rescheduled)
Welcome to the second installment of the AAS Speaker Series! We are proud and honored to have such an amazing group of inspirational speakers present their research and life's work. Read More
Winter 2024: AAS Book Celebration with Professor Emerita Halifu Osumare
The African American and African Studies department welcomes you to join us on Wednesday, March 13th to celebrate the book launch of Professor Emerita Halifu Osumare's new book: Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy. Read More
AAS Winter Symposium: Reimagining Repair
The African American & African Studies Department welcomes you all to join us for our Reparations Symposium taking place on January 11th and 12th. Read More
Winter 2024: New Directions in African American and African Studies Speaker Series
Welcome to the second installment of the AAS Speaker Series! We are proud and honored to have such an amazing group of inspirational speakers present their research and life's work. Read More
Fall 2023: AAS Book Celebration with Dr. Benjamin Weber
Fall 2023: AAS Book Celebration with Dr. Benjamin Weber Read More
Fall 2023: New Directions in African American and African Studies Speaker Series
Fall 2023: New Directions in African American and African Studies Speaker Series Read More
AAS 2022-2023 Newsletter
The African & African American Studies 2022-2023 newsletter is here! This newsletter highlights department events, student involvement, faculty accomplishments, and so much more! Read More
AAS Newsletter - July 2022
The African American & African Studies newsletter is back after a two year hiatus. This newsletter covers exciting updates within the department!
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Not Quite Right For Us
Hosted by Dr. Elisa White of the AAS Department, this event features a live international panel with interviews and a Q&A with non-fiction authors and anthology editor Sharmilla Beezmohun.
Location: Hart Hall 3201
Date: May 18, 2022 @ 12:00pm to 1:30pm
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Not Quite Right For Us
Hosted by Dr. Elisa White, this event will feature a live international panel with interviews and a Q&A with several fiction authors and anthology editor Sharmilla Beezmohun.
Location: Hart Hall 3201
Date: May 4, 2022 @ 12:00pm to 1:30pm Read More
Students Find Camaraderie in African American and African Studies
Tiana Williams describes her time in the UC Davis Department of African American and African Studies as “opportunity after opportunity. The doors are open even if they’ve never seen you before.” Read More
Letter of Solidarity with the Asian American and Pacific Island Community
We, the undersigned Faculty and Staff of the Department of African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis declare our support for, and solidarity with, the Asian American and Pacific Island (AAPI) community in light of the murder of 8 people, 6 of whom were women of Asian descent, in the Atlanta area of the state of Georgia on March 16, 2021. Read More
Austin and Arutha Goss Presidential Chair in African American and African Studies
UC Davis alumni Darryl and Lois Goss have established the Austin and Arutha Goss Presidential Chair in African American and African Studies, which will be the first endowed chair in the Department of African American and African Studies. Read More
"Catching up with Community Engaged Learning Faculty Fellow Milmon Harrison"
Check out this recent article by Tessa Hill, "Catching up with Community Engaged Learning Faculty Fellow Milmon Harrison." Read More
Position Announcement - Department of African American and African Studies Instructor
The University of California, Davis invites applications for an instructor for AAS 100 in Spring 2021. For full consideration, applications should be received by October 21, 2020. Read More
Congratulations Dr. Milmon Harrison!
Join us in congratulating Dr. Milmon F. Harrison for receiving the Chancellor's Fellowship for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion! Read More
Congratulations Dr. Bettina Ng'weno!
Join us in congratulating Dr. Bettina Ng'weno on her two major teaching awards! Read More
Position Announcement - Department of African American and African Studies Assistant Professor
The University of California, Davis invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor of African Studies to begin July 1st, 2021. For full consideration, applications should be completed by September 30th, 2020. Read More
Al McNeil Turns 100!
To celebrate Al's 100th, the Department of Music at UC Davis will have a concert in his honor. This event will happen in the Founders Church, Los Angeles, CA. Friday, March 27th 2020 at 8:00pm Read More
A Maroon State in Formation: Sovereignty and State Effects in the Polity of Accompong
Since the signing of a peace treaty with their British adversaries in 1739 polity of Accompong, Jamaica has practiced a form of limited self-governing autonomy within contested territorial boundaries. Wednesday May 8th 12-1:30 Hart Hall 2215 A MAROON Read More
“She stood there by him with a gun”: Mabel Williams and the Philosophy of Armed Resistance
In this talk Dr. Young uses the writings and activism of Mabel Williams, a southern activist from North Carolina, to discuss the philosophy of armed resistance.
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020, 4:00pm-5:30pm, 3201 Hart Hall Read More
A Quiet Revolution: Building a Black Farmer Movement
This presentation will detail the efforts of African American farmers and farm cooperatives in the Black Belt who have used agriculture and land-based economic development to build independent and culturally relevant spaces that refuse and resist the dominant socio-political structures.
Thursday, January 16th, 2020, 4:00pm-5:30pm, 3201 Hart Hall. Read More
American Purgatory: Race, Empire, and the Carceral State
This talk follows the convict clause beyond US borders, tracing the historical geography of prison imperialism to places like the Panamá Canal Zone.
Thursday, January 9th, 2020, 4:00pm-5:30pm, 3201 Hart Hall Read More
The 48th Annual Black Family Day happening on UC Davis Quad
ALMOST HERE!! The 48th Annual Black Family Day happening on UC Davis Quad on Saturday, May 18th 2019. This years theme is "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, It Will Be Live", inspired by the song/poem by the late Gil Scott Heron. Read More
Remembering and Forgetting Gender-Based Violence in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Societies often institutionally commemorate histories marred by atrocity through the development of permanent memorials in efforts to create a national collective memory
Wednesday May 1st 12-1:30pm
Hart Hall 2215 Read More
African Asylum Claiming in the Age of Trump
Recent developments in asylum and refugee mobilities in the US and elsewhere provide a framework for understanding Trump era immigration enforcement priorities.
Thursday April 25th 3:10-4:30
Hart Hall 3114 Read More
A Place Called Home: A conservation about place making
This talk is an exploratory conversation about neighborhood place-making two similar yet distinct cities Nairobi and New York.
Wednesday April 17th 12-1:30 Read More
Excited to announce that Professor Adejunmobi has published her new book, "Routledge Handbook of African Literature" (2019)!
Excited to announce that Professor Adejunmobi has published her new book, "Routledge Handbook of African Literature" (2019)! It is co-edited with Carli Coetzee, Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
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Chibok Girls
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at 2:15 PM – 4 PM
Art Annex RM 107
Davis, California 95616 Read More