Student Spotlights

Majoring in AAAS provided support, community, and profound mentorship. As an interdisciplinary artist and scholar, my pursuits in arts and academia were nurtured while still allowing me to take the lead in shaping my unique path in the…

AAAS had an invaluable impact on my life and academic trajectory. AAAS taught me that Black Studies has its own disciplinary concerns across various disciplines with a political commitment to match. I gained an interest in working with archives…

I declared AAAS because of the home that it provides me. Not simply a home where I can explore my own culture, but also where I can find intellectual vitality and academic rigor. Above all else, AAAS is a family that pushes me academically,…

I happened to declare African and African American studies as my major the fall of my freshman year, and there are only a few other decisions that I have been this sure of. After working at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education…

Growing up Black and Multi-racial in a society that fetishized my "mixed-ness," and encouraged me to distance myself from a Black identity, though always citing my Blackness as the source of my inadequacies, I became hyperaware of how my body…