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2018-2019 Postdoctoral Fellowship Search

January 26, 2018
Deadline March 5, 2018
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Jah Kingdom

January 9, 2018
New Book from Monique Bedasse
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Upcoming Book from Former Swahili Major

January 9, 2018
With the guidance of AFAS Senior Lecturer, Mungai Mutonya, Jamie Thomas (AB '06) Swahili remains at the center of her research
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AFAS Students Awarded US Department of State Critical Language Scholarships

August 23, 2017
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AFAS Seeking New Chair

May 5, 2017
Chair Search is Underway

Chair of the African and African American Studies Department

Washington University in St. Louis

 

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Environmental Racism in St. Louis

January 30, 2017
By AFAS Alumni Clark Randall and Jacqui Germain

A brief history of the lead poisoning epidemic in St. Louis and a question about its future

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The birth of African American writing

December 19, 2016
Professor Zafar's brief history of Black literature in the online London Times Literary Supplement
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AFAS 2017-2018 Postdoctoral Search

December 6, 2016

The Department of African and African American Studies (AFAS) at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications from recent Ph.D.

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AFAS is now a FULL Department!

November 3, 2016

“As an alum of the AFAS program and the daughter of one of its late adjunct professors, I’ve long known the brilliance and importance of our program,” said Brittany Packnett (AB ’06)

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Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage

September 30, 2016
Sowande Mustakeem's forthcoming debut manuscript available September 30, 2016

Assistant Professor of History and African & African-American Studies, Sowande Mustakeem's groundbreaking debut manuscript takes us inside the Atlantic slave trade to explore the social conditions and human costs embedded in the world of marit

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