News & Events

June 28, 2024

Lecturer Amlaku B. Eshetie was interviewed by VOA Amharic about teaching Amharic at UC Berkeley (note: the interview is in Amharic).

May 13, 2024

Professor Tianna Paschel and Project Manager Barbara Montano present to the Public Humanities Network of the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes.

May 1, 2024

The VèVè Clark Institute for Engaged Scholars of African Studies receives the 2024 Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education.

April 7, 2024

Professor Michael Cohen and Project Manager Barbara Montano are featured on KCSM 91.1's radio show, "Places and Spaces."

April 1, 2024

The Department of African American Studies was awarded a mini-grant from the "Addressing bias and bigotry" mini-grant program from the Chancellor's Office for a project created by graduate student Jasmine Flowers. 

March 27, 2024

From the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: By Anthony Balas March 26, 2024 The University of California, Berkeley, is making a hopeful case for African American studies amid attacks on academic freedom.  Critical as they are to a healthy democracy, open conversations at public universities on race, history, and freedom are increasingly threatened by an array of attacks—from cuts to funding for humanities departments to legislation that restricts higher education institutions from incorporating topics like racial injustice into curricula.  To Nikki Jones, who is a professor and chair of the Department of African American Studies at UC Berkeley, these attacks can be understood,…

March 27, 2024

UC Berkeley’s African American Studies (AAS) Department launched a groundbreaking project this week with a $100,000 Affirming Multivocal Humanities grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Banned Scholars Project is a direct response to increasing restrictions on academic freedom, particularly in the fields of critical race theory, DEI and gender studies. It was spearheaded by AAS professors Michael M. Cohen, Tianna S. Paschel and Ula Taylor; department chair Nikki Jones; and managed by staffer Barbara Montano.

March 14, 2024

Professor Leigh Raiford gives the Anna-Marie Kellen lecture during her fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin.

March 1, 2024

Professor Tianna Paschel is awarded the 2024 Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award.

November 3, 2023

Black Graduation 2024 May 17, 2024 9:00 am  Zellerbach Auditorium  Berkeley, CA Registration TBA