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Undergraduate student Kaia Woodford, who is majoring in African American and African Studies and Political Science, was featured recently in an OSU Impact Story. Read more here.

The AAAS Community Extension Center renovations are beginning. See footage of the groundbreaking ceremony from WDTN in Dayton here.

Congratulations to the students selected to be the second cohort of participants in the Blackness and the Politics of a Professional Career Program: Bryana Chambers, Jaiden Davis, …

The Department of African American and African Studies has been awarded a grant in the amount of $1,972,000 from the Mellon Foundation that will be used to hire new faculty, recruit new PhD…

AAAS faculty member Judson L. Jeffries recently published an opinion column in the Columbus Dispatch on Tyre Nichols. Read the full piece here. 

The Department of African American and African Studies (AAAS) is now accepting applications for the 2nd annual Blackness and the Politics of Professional Career sponsored by the Department of…

AAAS faculty member Ryan Skinner was named author of the month by the journal Africa Today for January 2023. Read more on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AfricaTodayJournal/…

AAAS faculty member Tiyi Morris will be honored Friday, January 13, at the "For My People" Awards luncheon presented by the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University. Dr. Morris will…

If you plan to come to campus over winter break, please keep in mind the university (and AAAS) will be closed from Friday, December 23, through Monday, January 2, for both university-recognized…