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Institutes and Research Centers
African and African-American Studies Research Center
The African and African-American Studies Research Center (AAASRC) is an independent research unit at UC San Diego with a rich, twenty-year history. Several European and African institutions have established ongoing exchange relationships with the Center most notably, the Centre d’Étude d’Afrique Noire (CÉAN) at the Universityé de Bordeaux IV, the African Studies Research Center (ARC) at the University of Leuven in Belgium, and the National University of Côte d’Ivoire. The African and African-American Studies Research Center is an oasis and an international crossroads for students, faculty, and community members interested in Africa, African-American, and multicultural research issues and teaching at UC San Diego. We look forward to the upcoming year with enthusiasm and energy.
Carter G. Woodson Institute
The Institute was established in 1981 in response to student and faculty demands for a more coherent African-American and African Studies program and a more aggressive program of minority recruitment at Virginia University.
Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute
The Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute is the nations foremost research organization focusing on the educational status of African Americans of all ages from preschool through adulthood. The Institute is compelled to understand and expand the multiple pathways leading to educational attainment.
UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies
The Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, founded in 1969 as the Center for African American Studies (CAAS), is the result of the struggle by black students at UCLA to have their history and culture recognized and studied. The Bunche Center was established as an Organized Research Unit (ORU), with the mission to develop and strengthen African American Studies through five primary organizational branches: research, academic programs,
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
Named after the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University (1895), the idea for the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research was proposed in the Report of the Faculty Committee on African and Afro-American Studies dated 20 January 1969. In May of 1975 in its progress report to President Derek C. Book, the Institute's Advisory Board announced the establishment of four fellowships for the 1975-1976 academic year. The fellowships were intended to "facilitate the writing of doctoral dissertations in areas related to Afro-American studies." As such, the Du Bois Institute is the nation's oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history,
Journals
Journal of African American History
National Academies of Science Engineering and Medicine
Souls: A Critical Journey of Black Politics, Culture and Society
UC San Diego Library
UC San Diego's Library is a great place to start. It offers a plethora of library collections and databases that may aid your research. These resources can be accessed on and off campus using UCSD's VPN.
See the African Studies subject homepage.
See the African American Studies subject homepage.
Book a Consultation here with our Library Liaison!
Advancing Faculty Diversity Grant for Blackness and STEM
Advancing Faculty Diversity Cluster Hire Initiative: Strengthening STEM Research and Teaching for the Black/African American Diaspora
UC San Diego is forging a new paradigm for engagement and collaboration between STEM/Public Health/Health Sciences and the Social Sciences/Arts & Humanities. The Black Diaspora and African American Studies Major (BDAAS) and the African American Studies Minor (AASM) programs are partnering with EIGHT different UC San Diego campus units to hire THIRTEEN brilliant scientists who desire to work within, outside, and across disciplinary boundaries to explore relationships between Black and African American experiences and issues in biological and physical sciences, engineering, medicine, health, and the environment.
- Division of Physical Sciences
- Division of Biological Sciences
- Jacobs School of Engineering
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Wertheim School of Public Health
- Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
- UC San Diego School of Medicine
The UC San Diego Advancing Faculty Diversity (AFD) Cluster hire is an inventive program that goes beyond hiring new faculty. UC San Diego seeks to build and strengthen Black professional communities and intellectual spaces through innovative campus programming, faculty collaboration, and instructional and mentorship support. The goals of the AFD are to
- Cultivate Black intellectual spaces on campus,
- Model excellence and increase support for Black undergraduate and graduate students,
- Utilize interdisciplinary collaborations to address issues of race and racism, and
- Integrate knowledge about race and racism within all campus divisions.
AFD faculty will conduct research among nationally and internationally renowned and award-winning faculty, research centers, departments, and UC San Diego divisions.
While AFD faculty become affiliated members of the AASM and BDAAS, AFD faculty do not have additional teaching or service requirements connected to their department workload. Courses designed and taught in the AASM/BDAAS will fulfill departmental teaching assignments and/or expected leadership in service activities focused on underrepresented racial minority students.
Opportunities for AFD Cluster Hire faculty include:
- Connecting with Black faculty within multiple professional community spaces as opportunities for networking and mutual support.
- Collaborating with faculty across UC San Diego to address issues of race, equity, and access in Black communities, in the USA and globally.
- Designing and teaching courses, or directing programs and internships, that focus on STEM, Health Sciences, Earth and Sea, Public Health, and the histories/ experiences/outcomes related to African Americans and/or the Black Diaspora.
- Automatic admittance to the highly sought-after National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity Faculty Success Program.
- Working with high-achieving students in the African American Studies Minor and/or Black Diaspora and African American Studies Major.
- Working with graduate students focused on intersections of Blackness and STEM.
We welcome candidates whose multifaceted experiences have facilitated their understandings of traditionally underrepresented racial minority communities.
Strong candidates will have a research agenda easily related to factors of race/ethnicity, as well as previous experiences teaching, mentoring, and supporting the advancement of underrepresented racial minority students, and a record of service that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion.
In the News
October 7, 2020 - "UC San Diego Receives Two Grants to Improve Faculty Diversity"
October 3, 2020 - "UC San Diego Hiring Up to 12 Faculty Members to Advance Diversity"
