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.
Prof. Corey D. B. Walker to lead a new Mellon Foundation funded initiative on environmental justice
The Mellon Foundation has awarded a $1 million grant to Wake Forest University to create a model program for engaging scholars and the local community in advancing environmental justice. “This is an opportunity to develop a cross-institutional program that leverages the strength of our liberal arts tradition and models new ways to engage the humanities and sciences to address the pressing challenges facing our society and world,” said Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest Professor of Humanities who will lead the project. Walker is also director of the African American Studies Program and interim dean of the School of Divinity.
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Event Calendar
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February 3, 2023 | 6:00pm
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February 9, 2023 | 4:00pm
Brendle Recital Hall
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CRITICAL! North Carolina Trees Are Feeding Europe’s ‘Clean Energy’ Revolution by @Melba_Newsome | https://www.theassemblync.com/environment/wood-pellets-north-carolina/ via @TheAssemblyNC
I had an absolutely lovely chat with @jdrabinski about #halfinshadow and am excited to share it with you! It’s been nearly two years since the book came out and it was a joy to reflect on what I know now that I didn’t know then. ❤️✊🏽📚 https://twitter.com/jffp_journal/status/1618277647657713666
New podcast out: John Drabinski hosts Shanna Benjamin (@phdshammy29) to discuss her book Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nelly Y. McKay, out w/@UNC_Press
Listen here or via your fave streaming service under Conversations in Atlantic Theory
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shanna-greene-benjamin-on-half-in-shadow-the-life/id1611898947?i=1000596363807
Black communities face disproportionately high rates of exposure to – and premature death resulting from – exposure to fine particle pollution. Read the
@nbejn1’s full statement on the @EPA’s particulate matter announcement at the link in our profile.
