African American Studies Program

In the African American Studies Program, you will learn to evaluate historical, cultural, social, economic and political influences surrounding African American culture and history in South Carolina, the South and beyond.

African American Lives, Past and Present

Taking AFAM Studies classes will challenge your beliefs, strengthen what you already know and broaden your knowledge of African American experiences, past and present.

The African American Studies Program has a strong bench of faculty who will open your horizons by teaching courses in political science, literature, music, anthropology, and more, through a range of interdisciplinary research methods and critical perspectives.

Join Our Faculty

We are delighted to announce an external faculty search for a new Director of the African American Studies program (Associate/Full Professor, Open Field) and two faculty searches in Creative Writing/Fiction (English/Open Rank) and Visual Art of the African Diaspora (Art History/Assistant Professor).

FIFTY YEARS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES, 1971-2021

Challenge the conventional. Create the exceptional. No Limits.