Undergraduate Program
We offer both a Major and an Undergraduate Certificate that expand and deepen student’s understanding of race in the world.
Graduate Program
We offer Doctoral Candidates coordinated interdisciplinary training while earning a certificate in African American Studies.
AAS Courses
Explore our dynamic model for teaching and researching African-descended experiences in the US through our Courses & Approved Cognates.
Get To Know AAS!
The Department of African American Studies at Princeton University provides an exciting and innovative model for teaching and research about African-descended people, with a central focus on their experiences in the United States. We embody this mission in a curriculum that reflects the complex interplay between the political, economic, and cultural forces that shape our understanding of the historic achievements and struggles of African-descended people in this country and around the world.
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AAS Faculty-Graduate Seminar
The Faculty-Graduate seminar is an intimate intellectual community that comes together to discuss work in progress around a common theme across a wide range of disciplines. Our goal is to establish a small but intellectually diverse and committed group of scholars who will attend all meetings and engage in sustained discourse during the year.

Recent News
Aaron Robertson, a 2017 Certificate recipient in African American Studies, has published his highly acclaimed debut nonfiction book, The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024). The book has been recognized as a New York Times Notable Book, a Washington Post Best…