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Welcoming the 2025-2026 Academic Year
Featured Faculty
Professor of Education\ African and African-American Studies Faculty
Ellen Gurney Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies;\ Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Harvard University Center for African Studies
Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and Professor of African Religious Traditions\ Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies
AAAS In The News...
### Hip Hop Institute Renamed in Honor of Marcyliena Morgan
October 08, 2025
Harvard’s Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute has been renamed the Marcyliena H. Morgan Hip Hop Archive & Research Institute in honor of AAAS professor and founder Marcyliena Morgan, who died recently at age 75. Please see the Harvard Gazette's article...
### AAAS Professor Claudine Gay Delivers Keynote Address at Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
September 19, 2025
On September 3rd, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study invited AAAS Professor Claudine Gay to deliver the keynote address opening the 2025-2026 academic year. Gay discussed the political and economic pressures threatening the core values of...
September 19, 2025
Last weekend on September 12 th and 13 th , AAAS professors Marla Frederick and Henry Louis Gates Jr. attended the Third World Meeting on Human Fraternity in Vatican City. This summit convened thinkers and musical artists from all over the world to...
50 Years of African & African American Studies at Harvard
AAAS commemorated its 50th Anniversary with a 2-day symposium on February 28-29, 2020.
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African and African American Studies Visual Retrospective
In honor of the 50 years of African & African American Studies at Harvard University, two of our graduate students, Amy Alemu and Robin McDowell, have created a visual retrospective to celebrate the department's history.