Please join us on Friday, August 22, 2025 @ 3:30 pm, Mergenthaler Hall 230 Learn more about the Center for Africana Studies, including course offerings, CAS faculty and events. Light […]

Madina Thiam joins as Fannie Gaston-Johansson Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and History. She studies Mali and West Africa from the 18th to the 20th century, with interests in the […]

We are excited to welcome Associate Research Professor, Amaka Okechukwu, to the Center for Africana Studies. Amaka Okechukwu is an Associate Research Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Johns […]

Announcing “Fueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago” by Zophia Edwards In this new book, Fueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago, Zophia […]

“Language as culture is … mediating between me and my own self; between my own self and other selves; between me and nature. Language is mediating my very being … […]

Congratulations to our 2025 undergraduates.

We are proud to announce the recipients of the 2025–2026 Graduate Research Awards! These outstanding graduate students have demonstrated exceptional academic promise and innovative research potential across the Black World […]

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 […]