African American Studies @ WFU
African American Studies at Wake Forest University is a signature academic program that:
- Leverages the University’s distinctive commitment “to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts” while educating a new generation of scholars and citizens committed to serving humanity
- Employs a broad humanistic framework in providing a novel intellectual space for students and scholars to develop new knowledge in their attempt “to ask and answer the fundamental questions of human existence”
- Distinguishes its approach to the discipline by its unique focus on the cultures, knowledges, and expressions of African descended people in the southern United States and their global reverberations.
“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition – about what we can endure, dream, fail at, and still survive.”
– Maya Angelou
AAS@Wake
African American Studies is integral to a liberal arts education.
Academics
Learn more about our signature African American Studies program and see what’s being offered this spring.
Faculty
Meet our distinguished African American Studies faculty.
2024 AWFUBA/AAS Annual Homecoming Lecture
Then and Now: African American Studies at Wake Forest University
An Intergenerational Conversation
News
Event Calendar
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October 23, 2024 | 6:00pm
Porter Byrum Welcome Center -
October 29, 2024 | 5:00pm
Benson University Center
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Our friends @JWJIEmory will host @phdshammy29 at noon Monday (10/7) to discuss how the efforts of the late distinguished scholar Nellie Y. McKay resonate in today’s understanding of Black women’s private and public lives.
Free but RSVP required: https://bit.ly/3BtYiCD
The Dept. of African, African American & Diaspora Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill is proud to announce the launch of our doctoral program in Africana Studies. Application instructions can be found at http://aaad.unc.edu, & the deadline to apply for Fall 2025 admission is 12/10/24.
🚨The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is now accepting submissions for the 2025 CLR James Research Fellowship to support research towards the completion of a dissertation or publication of a book. Visit our website to learn more:
https://www.aaihs.org/accepting-submissions-for-the-clr-james-research-fellowship/
Emory University announces recruitment for the first African American Studies Ph.D. Program in the U.S. Southeast; we are currently accepting applications. For more details, please visit: https://aas.emory.edu/graduate/
If you are a postdoctoral scholar, independent researcher, or creative writer interested in studying at the #SchomburgCenter, consider applying to our Scholars-in-Residence Program. Deadline 12/1. Long & short-term fellowships. Stipend. https://ow.ly/WRgI50TxiVQ
Helene: Relief Efforts
WGSS is hosting two Caribbean Feminist Scholars for a discussion keynote on Tuesday October 8!
We are excited to host Dr Tonya Haynes @redforgender and Dr Andrea Baldwin!!
WGSS at Wake Forest University is now accepting applications for a professor in Asian/Asian Diaspora Feminist Studies. To learn more about this exciting opportunity, please visit:
https://wfu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Faculty_Career_Website_live/details/Professor–Asian-Diaspora-Feminist-Studies–Department-of-Women-s–Gender–and-Sexuality-Studies_R0007003-1
#nowhiring #chooseWGSS #wfu
INSPIRING evening with an amazing group of @WakeForest students discussing politics, justice, and freedom in our time.
