The Department of Africana Studies celebrates their 50^th anniversary, “Reckoning and Re-envisioning: Africana Studies at 50 and Beyond”. Please join us in this celebration for our One-Day Symposium featuring four virtual panel events!

For this panel, "Pondering New Futures in Africana Studies", panelists will lay out new directions and approaches to Africana Studies that they are pursuing in their own work and comment on what they see as important for the future of Africana Studies.

Panelists: 

• Sam Black – Director of African American Program, Heinz History Center

• Jeffrey McCune – Associate Prof. & Director, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies, University of Rochester

• Lindsey Villareal – Graduate Advisor, Policy Analyst, UC Berkeley

• Cynthia Young - Department Head, African American Studies, Penn State University

Discussion Moderator: Dr. Michele Reid-Vazquez