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AADS is accepting graduate programs applications for the 2021-2022 academic year
AADS is pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for our graduate programs for the 2021-2022 academic year! We offer a variety of graduate programs that are flexible and unique in their own ways. Please click here to read more about all our exciting graduate programs, including our Master of Arts in African & African Diaspora Studies, which can be completed online and on-campus! There are funding opportunities available.
Dr. Valerie Patterson named director of AADS
It is our pleasure to announce that Dr. Valerie Patterson, clinical professor in the Department of Public Policy and Administration, has been named director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS) at FIU.
AADS Graduate Student Association statement against Anti-Blackness and Police Brutality
Please click the title link to access the official response and statement from the AADS GSA Executive Board regarding the recent events of racial injustice, national uprising, and Black Lives Matter. If you have any further questions or concerns, please contact the AADS Graduate Student Association President, Tiffany Peacock, at tpeac001@fiu.edu.
Statement on the Global Response to the Death of George Floyd & Persistent Crisis of State Violence
African & African Diaspora Studies Steering Committee's Statement on the Global Response to the Death of George Floyd and the Persistent Crisis of State Violence:
AADS is now accepting applications for the 2020-2021 academic year
AADS is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for our graduate programs for the 2020-2021 academic year! We offer a variety of graduate programs that are flexible and unique in their own ways. There are funding opportunities available.
K-12 Book Drive in collaboration with Gambian American Foundation (GAF)
The Gambian American Foundation (GAF) is looking for the donation of new or gently used hardback and paperback books, from levels K-12 and beyond. We are looking for all kinds of child, adolescent, and adult fiction and non-fiction books. Please, kindly drop your book donations at the African and African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS), Labor Center, third floor. For Further details, please e-mail Mariama Jaiteh at mjaiteh@fiu.edu.
Dr. Hilary Jones receives prestigious Fellowships and Award (Updated June 2019)
Dr. Hilary Jones was recently awarded the U.S. Scholar Fulbright Award for the Africa Regional Research Program in Senegal. The award will allow her to conduct fieldwork in Senegal for her book manuscript, “From Senegal to the French Antilles: West Africa and the Making of the French Atlantic World.” This was in addition to the two prestigious Fellowships she received in the spring. Please click for more information.
Dr. Clealand's book wins The W.E.B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award
Dr. Danielle Clealand's book The Power of Race in Cuba: Racial Ideology and Black Consciousness During the Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2017) has won another award! The book recently earned The W.E.B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.
The Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars now has a YouTube Channel
the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars now has a YouTube channel! Please click on the title above to learn more about membership and the current graduate student contest.
Dr. Hilary Jones was interviewed for the FIU Film Studies Newsletter
Dr. Hilary Jones, Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor of AADS and History, was interviewed for the FIU's Film Studies Newsletter, which is now available. In the interview, Dr. Jones talks about the collaboration with the Historic Hampton House, the importance of researching and embracing history and AADS studies, how Daughters of the Dust influenced Beyonce's Lemonade, and much more! To access the interview, please click on the link below.
