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.
Focus on three major subfields: African-American studies, African and diaspora studies, or urban studies.
Our actively engaged faculty and affiliated faculty's work spans diverse academic disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and public health.
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.
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 […]
Shaniah Canterbury, a first year 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 […]
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 […]