News and Events

The Department of Africology is co-sponsoring An Evening with Edwidge Danticat, Monday November 23, at 7pm in in the Union Wisconsin Room.

The students of Africology 312 “Church in African American Society” have organized a panel discussion “Is the Church an Effective Resource for the Black Community?” Tuesday, November 17, 6:30pm, in Bolton Hall 150.

Dr. Sandra Jones is a 2009-2010 recipient of the UW-System Institute on Race and Ethnicity Faculty Diversity Research Award for her project: "Research in African American Literacies." Read more on the UW-System Institute on Race and Ethnicity's website.

Dr. Anika Wilson's research focuses on informal communications in the southeastern African country of Malawi. Read the UWM News article.

Dr. Patrick Bellegarde-Smith spent a month in Brazil continuing his research on African religions in Brazil. He met on several occasions with his publishers in Rio de Janeiro, concerning the translation of two of his books into Portuguese, the first book shall appear in October. As President of KOSANBA, a scholarly association for the study of Haitian Vodou, he shall attend the upcoming 9th international colloquium on Haitian Vodou in Mirebalais, Haiti in mid-july 2009.

Dr. Erin Winkler spoke with WUWM's Stephanie Lecci about how children learn to preceive race and how we consider it as adults. Listen to the interview.

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The Department of Africology celebrated its 40th Anniversary in May 2008
Photographs from the event

New Doctoral Program in the Department of Africology
Ten years in the making, a doctoral degree program in Africology will begin next year at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM).

Read entire article by Laura L. Hunt, UWM News