Class Highlight - St. Louis Black History, Culture and Civic Engagement
Lynne Jackson speaks to AFAS students about her great-great-grandfather, Dred Scott.
Class Acts: Kai Radford
Danforth Scholar to work with St. Louis foster children
WashU faculty seek student partners in new Civil Rights & Restorative Justice Action Research Lab
The WU-CRRJ Action Research Lab led by Professors Cunningham and Ward will engage WashU undergraduate and graduate students in field research needed to investigate racially-motivated homicides in Missouri (1930-1954) in support of case investigations and restorative justice efforts led by teams of law faculty and students in the award-winning Civil Rights and Restorative Justice (CRRJ) Clinic at Northeastern University Law School.
Bones in our Basement: WU re-evaluates its acquisition of human remains
WashU’s osteology collection still contains specimens from nearly 1800 individuals from St. Louis and wider Missouri, many of them African Americans, who probably never consented to being collected for use in research and teaching.
Memory studies beyond the classroom
A new StudioLab graduate course explores trauma and memory in community spaces beyond campus.
AFAS major uses Summer Research Award to Promote the Visibility of Black Women’s Stories in Rural Mississippi
In the research and film project, “Mississippi Mud: Visibility for Black Women’s Stories in Rural Mississippi,” AFAS major Leandrea Clay uses oral histories, archival materials, photographs, and other sources to share the stories of three generations of women in her hometown of Centreville, Mississippi.
AFAS Minor Ephraim Oyetunji was one of two WashU finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship
Senior Biology major and AFAS minor Ephraim Oyetunji was one of two Washington University in St. Louis finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship, one of the world’s most prestigious academic honors.
Swahili students win U.S. Department of State Scholarships
The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is a competitive and intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for American university students to study one of fifteen critical languages.
AFAS faculty help lead WashU & Slavery, a new initiative in CRE2
Several AFAS faculty are helping to lead Washington University's participation in Universities Studying Slavery, a global consortium of nearly eighty universities across five countries engaged in examining how their institutional histories are entangled with histories and legacies of slavery. The project, WashU & Slavery, is based in the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2).
College and COVID-19
Two AFAS majors share their experiences of being in college during a pandemic.
Swahili students win U.S. Department of State Scholarships
The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is a competitive and intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for American university students to study one of fifteen critical languages.
AFAS Majors Join the 28th Cohort of Mellon Mays Fellows
Congratulations to Zari Muhammad and Kennedy Young!
WashU Summer in Kenya 2020 will Enrich a Broad Array of Study Areas
Apply by February 1, 2020 for Washington University's Summer 2020 Program in Kenya. This dynamic program offers four weeks of full immersion in Nairobi, Rift Valley, and the coastal region of Kenya. The Summer 2020 program will run from May 29, 2020 through June 29, 2020.
City Academy Graduate Stephanie Briggs Wins 2019 Alumni Award
AFAS Junior Daelen Morris named Schomberg-Mellon Humanities Institute Fellow
AFAS Students elected to WashU Student Union
New Student Union leaders pledge to address inequity.
African Oral History
AFAS launches a new project that focuses on the oral histories of Kenyan WWII veterans and St. Louis' African immigrants.
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