Meet junior, Gnagna Sy! She is the vice-president of the JHU Black Student Union, as well as the tech master for Temps D’Afrique Dance Troupe! Gnagna is a Biomedical Engineering […]
Study the Black World
The Center for Africana Studies is the intellectual home for university students, researchers, and faculty whose interests include historical, political, artistic, scientific, literary, educational, and economic work engaging with Africa and the African Diaspora. The center offers a Major and a Minor.
- Degrees Offered BA
- Major Africana Studies
- Minor Africana Studies
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Undergraduate
Focus on three major subfields: African-American studies, African and diaspora studies, or urban studies.
Faculty
Our actively engaged faculty and affiliated faculty's work spans diverse academic disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and public health.
Funding Opportunities
The Center for Africana Studies is committed to supporting its faculty affiliates, undergraduate and graduate student organizations, and other campus units with programming focused on Black Studies.
News & Announcements
Congratulations Shaniah Canterbury!
Shaniah Canterbury, a freshman majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology with a minor in Psychology and Africana Studies, will be sponsored by CAS as one of the students in the […]
The Center for Africana Studies is pleased to welcome Denae Bradley-Morris (Howard University) and C. Darius Gordon (University of California-Berkeley) to Johns Hopkins University as our 2024-25 Post-Doctoral Fellows.
Danae Bradley-Morris (she/her) is Guided by Black feminist perspectives and a reproductive justice praxis, her research focuses on the intersection of reproductive health and mass incarceration. She uses mixed methodologies […]