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Department of African & African Diaspora Studies

Photo of Drea Brown.

Reckoning the Haint

January 12, 2018 by Rachel White

Drea Brown made UT Austin history during the spring as the first doctoral candidate to defend a dissertation in the Department of African & African Diaspora Studies. The department, founded in 2010 under the direction of associate professor and chair Edmund Gordon, was the first doctoral program in black studies in the southern U.S. Brown’s dissertation, “Hush […]

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Op-Ed Project Fellows Address Challenges African Americans Still Face Today

February 24, 2015 by Jessica Sinn

Turn to the op-ed pages of any major newspaper, and you’ll see how writers are wielding the power of the written word to keep people honest, to speak out about injustices, to shake readers out of apathy. You’re also likely to see the article was most likely written by a man. Only 10 to 20 […]

Twenty-five Washington Fellows pose in front of the UT Tower on their first day on campus

Investing in Global Leadership

December 4, 2014 by Jordan Schraeder

UT Welcomes African Entrepreneurs to Campus Austin is no longer simply the Silicon Valley of the Southwest—it’s an international hub of entrepreneurial know-how. At its center: The University of Texas at Austin. And, true to its mission to change the world, the university is playing a key role in sharing that knowledge with Sub-Saharan Africa’s […]

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