Announcements

 

Ava Purkiss, M.A. student, received the FIU College of Arts and Sciences Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in African and African Diaspora Studies
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Dr. Veronique Helenon, Assistant Professor of History and African and African Diaspora Studies participated in “French Peri/Urban Cultures and Crises”- a colloquium held at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles on March 6, 2009. Her lecture was titled “In the name of Hip-Hop? Banlieue Culture and Riots in France”.
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Photographer and AADS graduate student Noelle Theard partnered with Power U Center for Social Change for the "Through Our Eyes," an art exhibit...
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Summer 2009 Study Abroad Program in the Gambia
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"Black Popular Cultures:Global Dimensions"
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Professor Linda Spears-Bunton, College of Education and AADS Affiliate Faculty, has edited a new book with Rebecca Powell: Toward a Literacy of Promise: Joining the African American Struggle.  New York: Routledge, 2008.
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Professor John Clark, Chair of the Department on International Relations and AADS Affiliate Faculty, has been invited to  contribute a paper ( "Political Culture as the Linkage between Colonial and Post-Colonial Violence in the the Democratic Republic of Congo.") to the conference "Post-Colonial Wars: Current Perspectives on the Deferred Violence of Colonialism," which will take place at Harvard University.

 

Justene Hill, who just graduated with an MA in AADS, has enrolled in the PhD Program in History at Princeton University.
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