The Department of African American and African Studies at UC Davis

Hello Community,

AAS Professor Dr. Antoine Johnson will be presenting on Social Medicine. Please see the flyer for details and registration below!

Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/4/d/e/1FAIpQLSdlVKi-1RRw5qFjvCHvtiMVyNUPpX2YXY0nd5RwgyLP542UyA/viewform

Hello Community,

Please check out our 2023-2024 AAS Newsletter! We are excited to share the many achievements in our wonderful department! PDF version also in the link below! Please see link below:

AAS 2023-2024 Newsletter | African American & African Studies AAS Newsletter 23-24 8.2.24.pdf

Congratulations to AAS graduate and former peer advisor Dorian Mendoza for receiving the highest honor and award with the AAS department-Citation for Outstanding Performance! She earned the highest gpa in the major!

Congratulations to AAS graduate Kerah Hunter for receiving a AAS departmental citation!

Congratulations to AAS graduate Cesar Manuel Fierro for receiving a AAS departmental citation!

Congratulations to AAS graduate Jackson Huston for receiving a AAS departmental citation!

Congratulations to the AAS class of 2024! We are proud of you!

As we have closed 2023-2024 academic school year, we would like to congratulate our Goss Scholarship and Perkins Scholarship recipients:

Akali Warmsley ‘24-Goss Academic Achievement Award

Cyril Osiris-Doe ‘24-Perkins Academic Achievement Award

Amarachi Ojukwu ‘25-Perkins Academic Achievement Award

Thank your to Darryl and Lois Goss for all you do for our students.

Congratulations to our designated emphasis student Vivienne Muller for their acceptance into the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program!🌍

📢 Call out to the community 📢. The African American and African studies department is partnering with the Black Family Day committee in the , to make a documentary on the history of Black Family Day. If anyone is interested in being a part of this project, please fill out the form. BE AWARE the form will close March 29, 2024

The African American and African Studies Department would like to congratulate Ibrahim Bàbátúndé Anọ́ba on winning the 2024 UC Davis Library Graduate Student Prize! Anọ́ba is a graduate student with a designated emphasis in African Diaspora Studies.

The prize celebrates graduate student researchers who use the library to create outstanding, publicly engaged scholarship.

Bàbátúndé Anọ́ba’s research explores the imposition of British laws on the Lagos Colony — a Yorùbá territory and part of present-day Nigeria — and how those laws clashed with Yorùbá customs, particularly with regard to inheritance. He synthesizes colonial court records with first-hand accounts by Yorùbá colonial subjects to demonstrate how Britain interfered with indigenous customs and the lasting effect of this interference in post-independence Nigeria.

Once again, congratulations on this outstanding accomplishment!🎉

The African American and African Studies Department would like to congratulate Ibrahim Bàbátúndé Anọ́ba on winning the 2024 UC Davis Library Graduate Student Prize! Anọ́ba is a graduate student with a designated emphasis in African Diaspora Studies.

The prize celebrates graduate student researchers who use the library to create outstanding, publicly engaged scholarship.

Bàbátúndé Anọ́ba’s research explores the imposition of British laws on the Lagos Colony — a Yorùbá territory and part of present-day Nigeria — and how those laws clashed with Yorùbá customs, particularly with regard to inheritance. He synthesizes colonial court records with first-hand accounts by Yorùbá colonial subjects to demonstrate how Britain interfered with indigenous customs and the lasting effect of this interference in post-independence Nigeria.

Once again, congratulations on this outstanding accomplishment!🎉