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AAST Supports NEH Grant
African-American Studies Director Tobin Miller Shearer led a stellar group of Humanities faculty at UM to garner at half-million dollar grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities that will include a speaker series on racial justice featuring several African-American scholars. Read more...
Join us and UM's Humanities Institute for "Humanizing ‘The Slave:’ Methodology as Racial Justice," a lecture by Dr. Wells-Oghoghomeh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, African-American Religious History, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, on Tuesday, October 26, at 7:30 p.m.,...
Dismantling Racism Class Tops 500
With fall enrollment for Dismantling Racism: From Theory to Practice maxed out, more than 500 students have enrolled in the class in the last eighteen months. African-American Studies Director, Tobin Miller Shearer, who teaches the class notes that both for-credit and non-credit students who...
UM Remembers Ulysses S. Doss
The University of Montana lost one of its formative figures over the weekend, Ulysses S. Doss, who founded UM’s African-American Studies Department. Before his time as an instructor at UM, Doss was a minister in Chicago and worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights...
Ruff Garners Doss Scholarship
By unanimous decision, the judges for this year's Ulysses S. Doss African-American Studies scholarship are proud to announce this year's winner - Amelu Ruff. Congratulations!
Amelu writes of herself, "I want to be on a journey where I continue to grow fearlessly and to love unconditionally. To...
Standing with the Victims
The African-American Studies Program at the University of Montana stands with the victims of the Atlanta area murders of eight Asian Americans. This targeting of members of the BIPOC community is yet another example of the ongoing reality of white supremacy and hate in this country. May we...
Ain't I A Woman
This year the College of the Arts and Media is sponsoring a livestream of another Core Ensemble remote presentation of Ain’t I a Woman. From their website:
“This chamber Music theatre work for actress and trio (cello, piano, and percussion) celebrating the lives and times of four significant...
Black Solidarity Summit 2021
The AAST program is proud to co-sponsor the 4th annual Black Solidarity Summit, February 20 and 21. The virtual event will feature keynote addresses by Chuck D and Debbie Allen. Interested participants can register at this Eventbrite link.
The Black Student Union students who plan and run the...
Black Radical Tradition Class
Seats are still available in Dr. Tobin Miller Shearer's "Black Radical Tradition" class. This Spring 2021 advanced writing class, HSTA 415 (CRN 34386) meets remotely on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2-3:20 p.m. The class explores revolts, rebellions, street activism, and the Black Panthers to put...
2021 Black History Month Events
Art Exhibit: 'Homage to Africa'
Feb 5-April 24
The Montana Museum of Art and Culture will feature “Homage to Africa: The Hoyt and Shepherd Collections” Feb. 5-April 24 in the Paxson and Meloy galleries of UM’s Performing Arts and Radio/TV Center. The galleries are open Tuesday through Saturday...
New Course - Black Women
New Course offering and instructor in Spring 2021 - AAST 391: Black Women - Race, Gender, and Sexuality taught by award winning scholar and activist, Dr. Calenthia Dowdy. Fully online. CRN: 34978. Filling fast! Register soon.
Sanders To Give MLK Day Talk
"Back Then They Didn't Want Me: A Look at Maligned, Misused, and Misremembered African American Activists." UM's MLK, Jr., Day address, Thursday, January 14, 2021, 4-5:15 pm (Mountain)
Dr. Crystal Sanders, associate professor of history and African American Studies at Penn State University, will...
Racial Justice and the Humanities
Join us for this important discussion about Racial Justice and the Humanities, Thursday, October 8, 2 p.m. (Mountain). Register at this link.
Doss Scholarship 2021
The Ulysses S. Doss Scholarship is awarded each spring to a African-American Studies major or minor who will be a sophomore, junior, or senior in Fall 2021. Interested students should apply through UM's Scholarship Portal. The $1,200 scholarship is awarded in honor of the AAST program's founding...
Dr. Mugo To Give Lecture
Dr. Micere Githae Mugo will give a lecture entitled "I Am Because We Are: The Imperative of Utu/Ubuntu For Transformational Scholarship" on Tuesday, September 24, at 7 p.m. in the North Underground Lecture Hall on the campus of the University of Montana. African-American Studies is a proud...
Rev. Rivers Lecture
Join us on Tuesday, September 10, 7:00 – 9:00 pm in the University Center Theater on the campus of the University of Montana for a screening of the documentary “Emanuel: The Untold Story of the Victims and Survivors of the Charleston Church Shooting” and Charleston pastor and civil rights...
New Course Responds to National Events
In this class - a new offering in light of recent national events - students will work with their professor to develop course details, rubrics, and project parameters. Designed as a learning community, the class will integrate real-life organizing practice and scholarly literature through group...
2019 Doss Scholarship Award Winner
The Ulysses S. Doss Scholarship awards committee is excited to announce the 2019 awardee, Maggie Bornstein. Maggie will be a junior in the 2019-20 academic year and is majoring in African-American Studies. The Doss award is given each year to a major or minor in the program who has demonstrated...
South Africa Summer Online Course
Apartheid. Mandela. Boycotts. Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Robbens Island. Pass Laws. Non-violent protest. HSTR 291H discusses the History of South Africa from the early modern period through the tumultuous twentieth century, discussing the rise and fall of apartheid within the context of global...
Roberts To Give Hampton Lecture
On Tuesday, April 16, at 7 pm. in the Gallagher Business Building Room 106, Professor Blain Roberts from Fresno State University will discuss how the topic of slavery continues to divide Americans over 150 years after emancipation in her lecture, "The Serpent in the Garden: How the South...
New Course on Black Women
AAST 391: Black Women - Race, Gender, and Sexuality is a Fall 2019 on-line course that offers an interdisciplinary examination of the historical and contemporary experiences of black women in the United States from the Antebellum Era through the present. Students will explore key themes...
Talking Black In America
Come see Talking Black In America, a documentary on African-American English and its impact on American language and culture, Monday, February 4, 2019, 7:00 pm. Jeannette Rankin Hall 202. The film is free and open to the public.
Black History Month Talk
Professor Sonja Lanehart will present "Can You Hear (and See) Me Now?" a talk on African-American Women and Their Languages in Sociolinguistics Research on Thursday, February 14, at 7:00 p.m. in the Dell Brown Room on the University of Montana campus.
In this presentation, Dr. Lanehart will...
MLK Day 2019
Join us for the 2019 celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., day, Monday, Janaury 21, 6 pm at St. Anthony's Church, 217 Tremont St. Other events include Screenings of King in the Wilderness, Sunday, January 20, 1-4 pm in UM's 3rd floor UC ballroom and at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave., on...