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
Ruha Benjamin, the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, has been awarded a 2024 MacArthur Fellowship for “illuminating how technology reflects and reproduces social inequality and championing the role of imagination in social…
