The Department of African and African American Studies (DAAAS) is thrilled to announce that Interim Chair Professor Joel Cabrita has been named the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, one of the…
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Ahead of West Georgia Bluesman Jontavious Willis’s performance at The Studio on October 21, we sat down with DAAAS Professor Stanford musicologist Dr. Matthew D. Morrison (author of Blacksound) to…
The Department of African & African American Studies (DAAAS) has appointed Dr. Kimberly Thomas McNair as its new Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS) for this academic year. Dr. McNair, a lecturer…
Professor Rachel Jean-Baptiste has been elected President of the Berkshire conference of Women Historians. Founded in 1930, the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians is a non-profit organization…
The Department of African and African American Studies (DAAAS) is pleased to announce that Professor Joel Cabrita will serve as Interim Chair during the upcoming academic year. The appointment comes…
Alana Okonkwo was a recipient of several awards. One of which was the Stanford Alumni Association 2026 Award of Excellence. This honor recognizes approximately 10% of the graduating undergraduate…
Professor Cabrita was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. She is among 224 researchers, artists and innovators from 55 disciplines named to the 2026 class of Guggenheim…
Professor Aaron Van Jordan has been selected as the latest recipient of the Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes National Poetry Prize awarded by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in…
1. Who are you? At Stanford, I am a Mellon Fellow at Stanford Humanities Center and lecturer at the Department of African and African American Studies (DAAAS). I grew up in New York City as the only…
Over 200 attendees celebrated as the Department of African and African American Studies (DAAAS) opened its new location on Main Quad this Friday, transforming Building 80 into its new home. The space…