Dr. Mary Anne Boelcskevy receives Excellence in Teaching award
Congratulations to Dr. Mary Anne Boelcskevy, Senior Lecturer, Master Level, in African American & Black Diaspora Studies, on receiving the Frank and Lynne Wisneski Award for Excellence in Teaching in the College of Arts & Sciences for 2023!
Dr. Austin and Dr. Grundy receive tenure
Congratulations to Dr. Austin & Dr. Grundy on their recent promotions to tenured associate professor! Dr. Paula Austin is an Associate Professor of History and African American & Black Diaspora Studies. Dr. Saida Grundy is an Associate Professor of Sociology and African American & Black Diaspora Studies.
Course Spotlight: CFA MA 430: R&B, Motown, and Classic Funk
CFA MA 430: R&B, Motown, and Classic Funk: Soundtracks of Empowerment and Civil Rights Instructor: Victor Coelho Summer 2 (July 6 – August 15) B1 Tues/Thurs. 1 – 4:30 PM Location: FLR 206 Rhythm and Blues, Gospel, Motown, Soul, and Funk are seminal in the development of rap, hip-hop, fusion, and contemporary urban and R&B […]
Course Spotlight: CFA MH561 with Dr. Birenbaum Quintero
Associate Professor of Music, Chair of Musicology & Ethnomusicology Department, and affiliated faculty member of AFAMBDS Professor Michael Birenbaum Quintero will be teaching CFA MH561: World Music Ensemble (1 credit) this fall. Learn to perform traditional world music in the context of an ensemble taught by specialists of African, Balinese, Latin American, and many other […]
Upcoming Event: Race, Prison, Justice Arts Spring 2023 gallery
Tuesday, May, 2 at 4 PM, Race, Prison, Justice Arts is hosting a series of artistic reflections and performances in response to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists through direct engagement, conversation, and collaboration! It will be located in the College of Fine Arts Room 106, 855 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 The Race, Prison, Justice […]
Study at the AFAMBDS House this Finals Season
The AFAMBDS House (138 Mountfort St, Brookline, MA 02446) will be open for studying during study period. From May 4 through May 11 at 10am-10pm, stop by for solo or group study sessions. Coffee, bagels, and pizza will be provided to fuel your energy to study!
This Friday: AFAMBDS Block Party
Spring is here, which means it’s time to celebrate the end of another successful academic year! Join us on Friday, April 28th, from 4 pm – 7 pm at the African American & Black Diaspora Studies Building (138 Mountfort St, Brookline, MA 02446). There will be music by DJ Troy Frost, soul food from Darryl’s […]
AFAMBDS Student Employee Charlot Valerio featured in CAS Q&A
Charlot Valerio (CAS’26) was recently interviewed by CAS for a Q&A titled “Diaspora Chats Panel Explores Racial Identity.” In the Q&A, Charlot discusses our program’s recent student-led forum Diaspora Chats. Hosted on Thursday, April 20, 2023, Diaspora Chats was a student-faculty discussion on identity within the Black Diaspora, aiming to challenge conventional ideas surrounding the […]
Fall 2023 Course Spotlight: CAS AA400 – Slavery and the In-Between
Slavery and the In-Between with Professor Andree Cunningham Tues/Thurs 3:30 – 4:45 PM This course examines the space between freedom and enslavement known as recaptivity. Course discussions will focus on historical and social conceptions of freedom, and how these conceptions relate to recaptive status. We will review recaptivity contexts documented in both the historical and […]
Dr. John Thornton quoted in Boston Globe article
Dr. John Thornton, professor of History and AABDS at BU, was recently quoted in a Boston Globe article, A look into how AP African-American Studies is taught at a Cambridge school. “The misunderstanding that we have in Florida is that somehow this course is going to be an indoctrination and Critical Race Theory is going to […]