Department of African American Studies

2018 News Archive

AFAM Studies' Students Face the Past and Future in Charleston

AFAM students stepped back in time to study how the horrors of slavery impacts their lives and social injustices today.

Grace Jordan McFadden Award Winner

Congratulations to Antionna Fuller, 2018 Grace Jordan McFadden Award winner.

Andrew Billingsley Faculty Award

Congratulations to Gloria Boutte named 2018 Andrew Billingsley Faculty Award winner.

Andrew Billingsley Community Leadership Award

Congratulations to Darion McCloud, 2018 recipient of the Andrew Billingsley Community Leadership Award.

New interim director of IAAR

Kimberly Simmons named new interim director of IAAR.

Isom-Scott's new co-authored article published in national journal

Deena Isom-Scott, assistant professor in African American Studies and Criminology and Criminal Justice, co-authored the article...

Meet Prof. Qiana Whitted, our new AFAM Studies director:

The new director of AFAM Studies, Qiana Whitted, is an associate professor of English and African American Studies

BTW Nomination

Historic Booker T. Washington Auditorium nominated to National Registry

We are A-FAM-ily

Introducing... AFAM Studies started of the fall semester with three new additions to our family.

Setting the stage

AFAM Studies' artists Tanya wideman-Davis and Thaddeus Davis, both associate professors, were recently one of two Southern dance companies to win the prestigious New England Foundation for the Arts, National Dance Project Grant for the production "Migratuse Ataraxia."

Ms. Fuller goes to Washington

UofSC AFAM Studies minor Antionna Fuller doesn't let any grass grow under her feet. No sooner had the senior touched down in Columbia this past May from a MayMester trip to Cape Town, South Africa, made a quick change of clothes, she took off to the nation's capital...

Junior Antionna Fuller's Internship with Senator Graham's Office

Junior Antionna Fuller got an inside look at how federal government works during an internship serving in U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham's office.

Art of Change

University of South Carolina professor and poet honored for creative vision to spark social change nationwide

Wideman-Davis and Davis Duo Take a Show on the Road

On stage --- Stories of the Origins and Experiences of African Americans

A 20-Year Journey to the Stage

Assoc. African American Studies and English Literature Prof. Marvin McAllister talks about his creative journey to staging a reading of an historic play, "Drama of King Shotaway."

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