Welcome to the Internet hub for African & African-American Studies at Elon University (AAASE). The site is designed to help students, faculty, staff, parents, alumni and other visitors access important information about our curriculum, programs and events, and goals.
The program continues its marketing and advertising campaign focused on making our community aware of our presence on campus, in our local community and beyond, and on attracting and recruiting students interested in African, African-American, and African diasporic communities. Not only has the program established itself as one of the largest academic minors on campus, but throughout the campus, educational awareness efforts highlight the issues our communities are still confronting. To see some of our most recent accomplishments, click here.
This program nurtures the scholarly and professional pursuits of our faculty- and student-scholars, and aims to provide a global forum for individuals and organizations with an interest and concern for the history, politics, languages, cultures, and lives of blacks within the United States, Africa and her diaspora.
AAASE faculty and students are in the midst of long-term programming and curricular changes that will strengthen the program, expand our reach, and enrich the Elon University experience for all. As our campus reconsiders our General Studies requirements and redesigns our curriculum with a greater focus on interdisciplinarity and cross-disciplinary foci, AAASE's work takes on greater urgency and importance.
Please feel free to email your comments and questions about African & African-American Studies at Elon to aaase@elon.edu, and we look forward to your continued support.
Best wishes,
Prudence Layne
Associate Professor of English &
Coordinator of AAASE
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