Africana Studies and Research Center
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Africana Studies and Research Center News
Historical marker commemorates Toni Morrison’s time in Ithaca
2/20/2026
Cornell faculty, staff, students and community members celebrated the 95th birthday of Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, by unveiling a new historical marker in front of 513 N. Albany St., where she lived while in graduate school.
CAU Summer Courses: From wine pairings to town-gown history
2/06/2026
Registration is now open for the two sessions of weeklong offerings, with the option to stay in a newly renovated Balch Hall
Nigeria's Tinubu 'should be commended' for accepting US counterterrorism assistance, says Cornell expert
2/05/2026
Olúfémi Táíwò, professor of Africana studies, shares insight into Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu's deployment of an army battalion to central Kwara state after suspected jihadist fighters killed at least 170 people on Tuesday night, hours after the United States said it had a small number of troops in the country.
Composer Michael Abels, famous for work on Jordan Peele films, to visit March 6-7
2/04/2026
Events include film screenings, panel discussions and a concert by the Barbara & Richard T. Silver Wind Symphony.
How music galvanized the fight for civil rights
1/15/2026
Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches tapped into a Black musical tradition that animated the Civil Rights Movement, says Ambre Dromgoole, assistant professor of Africana religions and music.
Combining humanities and tech for research gains
11/07/2025
An interdisciplinary project is sparking collaborations among those interested in digital approaches to the study of history, languages and culture.
Redbones and racial nuance in Louisiana Lumber War
11/05/2025
Klarman Fellow Kendall Artz wants to push beyond the assumption – one replicated by scholars – that company rosters and state records hold all there is to know about racial expression.
Medical anthropologist to deliver annual Society for Humanities lecture
11/04/2025
Stacey Langwick, associate professor of anthropology in the College of Arts & Sciences, will speak on "Healing in a Toxic World: Reimagining the Times and Spaces of the Therapeutic."
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A broad preparation
Undergraduate Program
The Africana studies undergraduate major and minor prepare students for a broad range of academic and professional careers in both the public and private sectors. Africana studies has a history of shaping students' intellectual discipline, creativity, and social and political awareness.
An unique perspective
Graduate Program
An interdisciplinary global study of race and Blackness makes Africana studies at Cornell a significant resource for graduate students who want to engage in the interdisciplinary study of Black people in Africa, the African diaspora and around the globe.
Upcoming Africana Events
Mar
11
Wednesday
12:00 AM
Wunpini Mohammed, "Media, Culture and Decolonization: Re-righting the Subaltern Histories of Ghana"
Goldwin Smith Hall G22
Mar
19
Thursday
05:00 PM
Claude McKay: The Wanderings of a Rebellious Poet
Goldwin Smith Hall HEC Auditorium, room 132
Mar
24
Tuesday
04:45 PM
Amiel Bize, "The Post-Agrarian Question”
Klarman Hall KG 42
Apr
14
Tuesday
05:00 PM
Pop after Empire: Disco, Decolonization, and the Re-Making of Europe's Pop Music Industry
A. D. White House Guerlac Room
May
22
Friday
12:00 AM
University Commencement Weekend
Schoellkopf Field
May
23
Saturday
12:00 AM
University Commencement Weekend
Schoellkopf Field
Useful Links for Students
A unique resource
The Africana Studies & Research Center
The Africana Studies & Research Center extends the teaching and learning opportunities that we provide in both our undergraduate and graduate classrooms well beyond to service learning projects and community initiatives, from local to transnational contexts.
Exploration on the Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad Hub
The projects featured here provide information about documented underground railroad activities in our region, tell us about the small Black communities that settled here to escape slavery after New York state outlawed it in 1827, and inform us about those ordinary people who braved assisting freedom seekers at great personal risk to themselves and their families.