Courses

Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day, Time, Location

AFRICAAM 10
Intro to IDA: power, art, and practice (CSRE 10, TAPS 10)

Smith, A. (PI)
Lundberg Torres Sanchez, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Thursday
1:30 PM
3:20 PM

AFRICAAM 18A
Introduction to Jazz History and Appreciation (AMSTUD 18A, MUSIC 18A)

Low, M. (PI)
H. Javaheri, M. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

AFRICAAM 18B
Jazz History and Appreciation: Advanced Level (AMSTUD 18B, MUSIC 18B)

Low, M. (PI)
Fath, J. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

AFRICAAM 29C
Afro Contemporary Dance I (DANCE 29)

Smith, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

AFRICAAM 37
Contemporary Choreography: Chocolate Heads Performance Project (DANCE 30)

Hayes, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
4:30 PM
6:20 PM

AFRICAAM 45
Freestyle Lab: Improv Strategies from Contemporary to Club (DANCE 45)

Hayes, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
4:30 PM
6:20 PM

AFRICAAM 47
History of South Africa (CSRE 74, HISTORY 47)

Campbell, J. (PI)
Kidane, S. (TA)
Virtue, J. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

AFRICAAM 47N
Mapping Apartheid: Data, the Regina Twala Archive, and the Global Legacy of Racial Segregation (FEMGEN 47N, HISTORY 47N)

Cabrita, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

AFRICAAM 50B
Nineteenth Century America (CSRE 50S, HISTORY 50B)

Olivarius, K. (PI)
Cassio, M. (TA)
Martin, B. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

AFRICAAM 50C
The United States in the Twentieth Century (HISTORY 50C)

Regalado, P. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

AFRICAAM 54N
The Inner Lives of Black Women (AMSTUD 54N, CSRE 54N, FEMGEN 54N, HISTORY 54N)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

AFRICAAM 104
Foundations of African American Studies I: From Reconstruction to the Present (AMSTUD 104A)

Martin, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Thursday
12:00 PM
2:50 PM

AFRICAAM 107
Beauty and the Beast: A History of West African Fashion and Sustainability (ARTHIST 107, DLCL 101, FEMGEN 107)

Toleque, G. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

AFRICAAM 112
Urban Education (CSRE 112X, EDUC 112, EDUC 212, SOC 129X, SOC 229X, URBANST 115)

pearman, f. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Wednesday
12:30 PM
3:20 PM

AFRICAAM 113N
The Foundations of American Popular Music: Present Day Implications (AMSTUD 113N, MUSIC 113N)

Desronvil, A. (GP)
Morrison, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM

AFRICAAM 120
Writing the Mind, Writing the Body

Pantoja, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Wednesday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM

AFRICAAM 121B
"The Will to Adorn": An Anthropology of Dress (ANTHRO 121B, ANTHRO 221B, ARCHLGY 121B, ARCHLGY 221B, FEMGEN 121B)

Flewellen, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

AFRICAAM 121N
How to Make a Racist (CSRE 21N, PSYCH 21N)

Roberts, S. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday
9:30 AM
12:20 PM

AFRICAAM 122
Spatial Concepts in African Literature (ENGLISH 170)

Quayson, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday
10:30 AM
12:20 PM

AFRICAAM 123
Foundations of Global Black Diaspora Studies I: Diaspora, Literature, Cosmopolitanism

Quayson, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday
1:30 PM
3:20 PM

AFRICAAM 124C
Quilt Making as Black Expression (ARTSTUDI 124)

Gbewonyo, E. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
12:20 PM

AFRICAAM 128
Afro Contemporary Dance - Mixed Level (DANCE 128)

Smith, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

AFRICAAM 128C
Modern Africa (ARTHIST 128, ARTHIST 328)

Ekundayo, K. (TA)
Cohen, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
11:30 AM
12:50 PM

AFRICAAM 133
Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (COMPLIT 133, COMPLIT 233A, CSRE 133E, FRENCH 133, JEWISHST 143)

BHATTACHARYA, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Thursday
4:30 PM
7:20 PM

AFRICAAM 135
Empathy in Black Art and Literature

Pantoja, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday
3:00 PM
5:50 PM

AFRICAAM 135A
Contemporary Islam & Muslims in the United States (AMSTUD 135X, CSRE 120, CSRE 135, GLOBAL 137)

Ahmed, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday
10:30 AM
12:20 PM

AFRICAAM 136
New Orleans as Method: Time, Tradition, and the Art of Black Cultural Production (ARTSINST 136)

Amoo, J. (PI)
Monette, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday
11:30 AM
1:20 PM

AFRICAAM 140
Black Ecologies (EARTHSYS 146J, ENGLISH 146, FEMGEN 146B)

Goldstein, Z. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

AFRICAAM 145B
Foundations of African Studies I (HISTORY 145B)

Cabrita, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

AFRICAAM 147
History of South Africa (CSRE 174, HISTORY 147)

Campbell, J. (PI)
Kidane, S. (TA)
Virtue, J. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

AFRICAAM 150B
Nineteenth Century America (AMSTUD 150B, CSRE 150S, HISTORY 150B)

Olivarius, K. (PI)
Cassio, M. (TA)
Martin, B. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

AFRICAAM 150C
The United States in the Twentieth Century (AMSTUD 150C, HISTORY 150C)

Regalado, P. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

AFRICAAM 152
Hella Cinematic: The Radical Impact of the Bay Area on Film (CSRE 152A, FILMEDIA 152A)

Hodge, C. (PI)
Lundberg Torres Sanchez, B. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday
5:30 PM
8:20 PM

AFRICAAM 153
Culture Beyond Capital (ARTHIST 153A, CSRE 153)

Holt, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Wednesday
11:30 AM
1:20 PM

AFRICAAM 158C
Black Theater and its Relevance: The Plays of August Wilson and Lorraine Hansberry (TAPS 158W, TAPS 358W)

Elam, H. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
3:20 PM

AFRICAAM 160J
Conjure Art 101: Performances of Ritual, Spirituality and Decolonial Black Feminist Magic (CSRE 160J, DANCE 160J)

Smith, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

AFRICAAM 161
African Philosophy: Past, Present and Future

Nkansah, S. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday
4:30 PM
6:20 PM

AFRICAAM 161E
Stanford Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra (MUSIC 161E)

Low, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Wednesday
8:00 PM
9:30 PM

AFRICAAM 162
Black Lens/Black Lines: Cinematic Movement (ENGLISH 162B)

Jordan, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

AFRICAAM 170C
Black, White, Jewish: The Racial Politics of Jewishness (CSRE 170, JEWISHST 170)

Hammerman, S. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

AFRICAAM 176
Introduction to Themes in Black Studies I

Quayson, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday
10:30 AM
12:20 PM

AFRICAAM 179A
Crime and Punishment in America (AMSTUD 179A, CSRE 179A, SOC 179A, SOC 279A)

Clair, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

AFRICAAM 180
Black Arts in Theory and Practice

Morrison, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

AFRICAAM 180D
Designing Black Experiences (ENGR 180)

Webb, S. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Wednesday
5:30 PM
7:20 PM

AFRICAAM 182
Abdulrazak Gurnah: Between East Africa and the Indian Ocean World (ENGLISH 182B)

Rasberry, V. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM

AFRICAAM 187
African Archive Beyond Colonization (ARCHLGY 166, CLASSICS 186, CLASSICS 286, CSRE 166)

Derbew, S. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
11:30 AM
12:50 PM

AFRICAAM 200N
Funkentelechy: Technologies, Social Justice and Black Vernacular Cultures (CSRE 314, EDUC 314, STS 200N)

Banks, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

AFRICAAM 200X
Honors Thesis and Senior Thesis Seminar

Dieter, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Wednesday
1:30 PM
3:20 PM

AFRICAAM 200Y
Honors Thesis and Senior Thesis Research

Dieter, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
3:20 PM

AFRICAAM 200Z
Honors Thesis and Senior Thesis Research

Dieter, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Wednesday
1:30 PM
3:20 PM

AFRICAAM 201
Moving the Message: Reading and Embodying the Works of Audre Lorde (CSRE 125, DANCE 122, ENGLISH 287, FEMGEN 201)

Brody, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

AFRICAAM 208
Women of the Movement (AMSTUD 208, FEMGEN 208, FEMGEN 308, HISTORY 268, HISTORY 368, RELIGST 208, RELIGST 308)

Sharick, J. (PI)
Martin, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday
12:00 PM
2:50 PM

AFRICAAM 210
Righteous Rage, Healing Justice: Contemporary Black Feminisms (AMSTUD 210, FEMGEN 210, TAPS 210)

McNair, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

AFRICAAM 212
How We Free Us: Activism and Community (SOC 112A, SOC 212A)

McNair, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday
11:30 AM
2:20 PM

AFRICAAM 214
To Live for the People: Black Public History in the Bay Area (AMSTUD 214, FEMGEN 214)

McNair, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM

AFRICAAM 215
Huckleberry Finn and its Afterlives (AMSTUD 216, ENGLISH 216)

Fishkin, S. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
4:30 PM
5:50 PM

AFRICAAM 217
Black Life, Culture, and the Emergence of the Field from Emancipation to the Present

McNair, K. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
9:00 AM
10:20 AM

AFRICAAM 221
Between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, JR.: Race, Religion, and the Politics of Freedom (AMSTUD 141X, CSRE 141R, HISTORY 151M, POLISCI 126, RELIGST 141)

McLoughlin, S. (TA)
Karasinski-Sroka, M. (TA)
Martin, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

AFRICAAM 221C
Stanford Black Academic Lab: Community-Based Participatory Methods (AFRICAAM 488, CSRE 388, EDUC 221, EDUC 488, LINGUIST 276E)

Charity Hudley, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM

AFRICAAM 227
African American English (CSRE 327, EDUC 227, LINGUIST 165A)

Pittman, J. (TA)
Brooks, T. (TA)
Charity Hudley, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Wednesday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM

AFRICAAM 228
Foundations of African-American Studies II: New Approaches to the Field (AMSTUD 228)

Morrison, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

AFRICAAM 235
Print on Purpose (DESIGN 236P)

Fenton, P. (PI)
McGuffin, I. (PI)
Drake, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Friday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM

AFRICAAM 239
Reparations in Law and History (ETHICSOC 239B, HISTORY 239B)

Kliger, G. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Thursday
4:30 PM
7:20 PM

AFRICAAM 240
Foundations in African Studies II: Knowledge outside the colonial library

Parker, G. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
9:30 AM
10:50 AM

AFRICAAM 245
Understanding Racial and Ethnic Identity Development (CSRE 245, EDUC 245, PSYCH 245A)

Keller, E. (TA)
LaFromboise, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

AFRICAAM 248
Racial and Gender Inequalities in Latin America (CHILATST 248A, CSRE 248, LATINAM 248)

Cavalleiro, E. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Thursday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

AFRICAAM 249C
Sylvia Wynter: Being Human (ENGLISH 248, ENGLISH 348)

Elam, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

AFRICAAM 255
Identity in the American Imagination (AMSTUD 255D, CSRE 255D, FEMGEN 255M, HISTORY 255D, HISTORY 355D)

Hobbs, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday
9:30 AM
12:20 PM

AFRICAAM 258
Black Feminist Theater and Theory (CSRE 258, FEMGEN 258X, TAPS 258)

Brody, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

AFRICAAM 262
Toni Morrison: Modernism, Postmodernism, and World Literature (AFRICAAM 362E)

Quayson, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

AFRICAAM 263
Decolonizing African Epistemology in the Era of AI

Nkansah, S. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Wednesday Friday
1:30 PM
3:20 PM

AFRICAAM 264
Foundations in Global Black Diasporic Studies II: Before and Beyond the Atlantic (COMPLIT 264, CSRE 165A, FRENCH 264E, HISTORY 246E)

Errazzouki, S. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday
1:30 PM
3:20 PM

AFRICAAM 266C
Religion and the Civil Rights Movement: Race, Faith, and Kinship (RELIGST 266A, RELIGST 366A)

Gurley, C. (PI)
Martin, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Wednesday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM

AFRICAAM 274
Copyright, IP, and AI in Popular Music

Morrison, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Tuesday Thursday
12:00 PM
1:20 PM

AFRICAAM 274C
Haiti: Past, Present, and Futures (FRENCH 274, GLOBAL 275, HISTORY 275, HISTORY 375)

Jean-Baptiste, R. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday
4:30 PM
7:20 PM

AFRICAAM 276
Introduction to Themes in Black Studies II

Quayson, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Wednesday
10:30 AM
12:20 PM

AFRICAAM 278C
From Aksum to Athens: African Antiquity (ARTHIST 278C, CLASSICS 278, CLASSICS 378A)

Derbew, S. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

AFRICAAM 292
Contemporary Black Feminist Paths (ENGLISH 292B, FEMGEN 292B)

Girmay, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Thursday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

AFRICAAM 294
Black Brazil: Afro-Brazilian Music, Literature, and Art (CSRE 194, ILAC 194G)

Klinger, D. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday Wednesday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

AFRICAAM 362E
Toni Morrison: Modernism, Postmodernism, and World Literature (AFRICAAM 262)

Quayson, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

AFRICAAM 389C
Race, Ethnicity, and Language: Anansi in the Machine: Black Oral Traditions and Digital Cultures (CSRE 385, EDUC 389C, PWR 194AJB)

Banks, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

AFRICAAM 442
(Re)Framing Difference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Disability, Race and Culture (CSRE 343, EDUC 442, FEMGEN 442, PEDS 242)

Artiles, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Monday
1:30 PM
4:20 PM

AFRICAAM 488
Stanford Black Academic Lab: Community-Based Participatory Methods (AFRICAAM 221C, CSRE 388, EDUC 221, EDUC 488, LINGUIST 276E)

Charity Hudley, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Wednesday
10:30 AM
1:20 PM
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