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AAAS CEC awarded $100,000 Global Arts + Humanities grant with OSU Department of Dance and the Frank W. Hale, Jr. Black Cultural Center
OSUDance’s Dance Notation Bureau Extension Center for Education and Research; The Office of Diversity and Inclusion’s Frank W. Hale, Jr. Black Cultural Center; and the African American and African…
New article by Simone C. Drake in latest issue of Pathways magazine
Simone C. Drake, Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor of African American and African Studies, recently published an article in the Ohio Humanities magazine Pathways titled "All…
AAAS Seeking Undergraduate Students to Start Student Organization
Attention AAAS major, minors, and other interested OSU students! The Department of African American and African Studies is seeking to help interested students start an undergraduate student…
Spring 2021 Courses Now Open for Registration
Courses for Spring 2021 are now open for registration, visit https://aaas.osu.edu/students/undergrad/courses for more information.
Judson Jeffries: Why the Black Lives Matter protests look new
Judson Jeffries, professor of African American and African Studies, researches media studies, public policy, homeland security, African American politics and police-community relations. He sees the…
Giants Among Men: Lowery, Vivian, and Lewis
As the editor of Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men I would be remiss if I didn’t offer a few words about the recent passing of Dr. Joseph Lowery, the Rev. C. T. Vivian, and Congressman John Lewis. The…
AAAS Faculty in the News
Judson L. Jeffries, Professor of African American and African Studies, was recently interviewed by a variety of news outlets following the protests surrounding the murder of George Floyd at the hands…
Statement of the Ohio State University Department of African American and African Studies on the 2020 Pandemic, Racism, Structural Inequalities, and Pursuits of Social Justice
#BlackLivesMatter A Scarred Past Having just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the formation of this department and recognized the 400th-year anniversary of the arrival of Africans in the United…
Playlist: Music & the art of Mickalene Thomas
Dr. Simone C. Drake, chair of Ohio State's Department of African American and African Studies, recently led a gallery talk exploring the work in Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me through…