BLACK GRADUATION 2012!!
Saturday, May 19, 2012

2:00 pm
Zellerbach Hall

Keynote Speaker: Prudence Carter
Associate Professor of Education, Stanford University and author of
Keepin’ It Real: School Success beyond Black and White

Congratulations to Betty Reid-Soskin
2012's Fannie Lou Hamer Award recipient

Betty Reid Soskin (born 1921) is a prominent African-American woman of California, who at age 89 serves as the country's oldest National Park Ranger in her position at Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond.

Black Graduation Information Sheet

AASD Calendar

CAS CALENDAR

March 2012
African Diaspora Studies Ph.D. program graduate
Marlon M. Bailey receives award from CAPS

January 2012
Congratulations to Darieck Scott,
winner of the ALAN BRAY MEMORIAL BOOK AWARD

We’d like to congratulate Darieck Scott, author of Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination, for winning this year’s ALAN BRAY MEMORIAL BOOK AWARD! The award is given to the best book in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer studies in literature and cultural studies from the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association. 

The Awards Committee found Extravagant Abjection to be “an elegantly written and thoroughly researched study, which helps push queer studies in exciting and imperatively new directions.”

Professor G. Ugo Nwokeji on Thursday, November 17, 2011, received The 2011 Melville J. Herskovits Book Winner Award in Washington, D.C.

Awarded by the African Studies Association (ASA), the Herskovits Award is considered to be the premier book prize for non-fiction in African Studies worldwide. The ASA was formed in 1957 and is the largest of all scholarly associations that focus primarily on Africa.

Given to the author of an outstanding original book published on Africa in the previous year, The Herskovits Award has been awarded continuously since 1965 in honor of preeminent Melville J. Herskovits, who was instrumental to the emergence of African studies as an academic disciplines in the United States.

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