News & Events
Dr. Richard Pierce, Chair of Africana Studies is the Recipient of the 2009 Charles E. Sheedy Award for Excellence in Teaching. Presentation on Thursday, September 17, at 4:00 p.m. McKenna Hall Auditorium. Reception to follow.
We thank Mary Alice Hubbard McWilliams, and her family, for the generous donation of her personal library. The texts will increase the holdings of the Department of Africana Studies reading room in a meaningful and substantial way.
Past Events
March 13, 2008: The Department of Africana Studies invites you to its fifth annual Peters Fellowship Symposium. The panelists will discuss political, class and social differences and other diversity issues within the black community and what this means for the broader American culture.
March 1, 2007: The Department of Africana Studies was pleased to host its fourth annual Erskine Peters Fellowship Symposium during the vistitation weekend for the finalists of next year's fellowship offering. This year's symposium title, Acting Black, Being Black and academic discussion concerning the images of African Americans in the media and public sphere, attracted several members of the Notre Dame and South Bend Community.
Belly of the Basin Comes to Campus
February 19, 2007: True life stories of perseverance, struggle, and hardship of New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina encompass the big screen in a documentary by two New Orleans natives. This event was sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies and Multicultural Student Programs and Services.
Trustee and husband pledge $100,000 to Africana Studies
July 20, 2006
A University of Notre Dame Trustee and her husband have pledged $100,000 toward the endowment of the University's new Department of Africana Studies.
Notre Dame Celebrates Martin Luther King Day
January 13, 2006
The University of Notre Dame will celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a town hall meeting at 7 p.m. Jan. 24 (Tuesday) in the student lounge of the Coleman-Morse Center.
Conference to celebrate African-American poetry
September 26, 2005
"The Long Reach of African-American Poetics," a mini-conference celebrating the influence of African-American cadences and verse, will be held Oct. 5 to 7 (Wednesday to Friday) at the University of Notre Dame.
New Department of Africana Studies Established
June 2, 2005
The University of Notre Dame has established a new Department of Africana Studies, effective July 1. The new department will replace the existing African and African-American Studies Program (AFAM) and will enhance the University’s efforts to promote diversity and multiculturalism…
New Dean Gears Up to Smooth First Year for Students
August 18, 2005
Hugh Page Jr. has been, and is, a man of many facets: blues harmonica player, translator of Hebrew texts, assistant men’s tennis coach, newlywed, poet, Episcopal priest, theologian, black belt in karate.