Duke University - Sample Department

The African & African American Studies Department  coordinates interdisciplinary study of the history and culture,  social and economic issues, political institutions and processes that have shaped the experiences of people of African ancestry. The Department serves as an interdisciplinary intellectual center that encourages research and scholarship in many areas of African and African American studies.  It provides access to a broad range of information and research from the humanities and the social sciences as well as from the arts and professions. 

Our Affiliates

AAAS is affiliated with the John Hope Franklin Collection for African and African-American Documentation , which was established in 1995 at the University. The Center's mission is to make available to all researchers a growing body of primary sources and publications in the field.  It counts several notable collections among its holdings, including the papers of Professor John Hope Franklin and the documentation generated by Behind the Veil, an oral history project on African-American life in the Jim Crow South. Current holdings in Perkins Library span several disciplines and include books, manuscripts, archives, periodicals, microfilms, videotapes, and sound recordings.

• Mary Lou Williams Center
• Women's Center
• Center For Documentary Studies
• Center For Child and Family Policy
• Latin American and Caribbean Studies
• Ralph Bunche Summer Institute
• Office of Black Church Studies at Duke Divinity
• Samuel DuBois Cook Society
• Djembe Ensemble
• Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
• Women's Studies Program
• Black Pre-Professional Health Organization
• Black Student Alliance
• National Society of Black Engineers
• NAACP at Duke
• Duke Jazz Ensemble
• Center for Global Studies and the Humanities