Africana studies is a tradition of intellectual inquiry and study of African peoples. Africana scholars document the global migrations and reconstruction of African peoples as well as patterns of linkages to the African continent (and among the peoples of the African diaspora). The Africana Studies and Research Center is comprised of nationally and internationally recognized scholars and educators, socially conscious intellectuals and students representing each of Cornell's undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges.
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Upcoming Africana Events
Symbolic Re-Birth and Ceremonies Never Lost: African Religions and the Paradoxical Progressivism of Sylvia Wynter’s Work
The Right on, Write In Workshop
Crochet & Charcuterie
Fireside Chat with Joseph Holland
The Reuben A. and Cheryl Casselberry Munday Distinguished Lecture Series - Kevin Blackistone: "Race and Sport: Your Brain on Sports"
2021-22: The Year of Afterlives
The 2020-21 Fellows at the Society for the Humanities
After Eden: Afro-Asia Bioengineering and Wildlife in the Caribbean: Tao Leigh Goffe, Africana Studies and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2020 Cornell Center for the Social Sciences' grant competition winner
Center’s grants seed diverse research in the social sciences
“Intergenerational Trauma: Flint, COVID-19 and Racial Justice”: Jerel Ezell, Assistant Professor in the Africana Studies & Research Center (A&S)