Institute for African American Studies
University of Georgia
Contact: R. Baxter Miller, Director
Phone: 706.542.5197
Address:
University of Georgia
312 Holmes/Hunter Academic Building
Athens, GA 30602
URL: http://www.uga.edu/~iaas/
Year Established: 1992
Staff: 11
Purpose: To engage in creative research on the achievements of African Americans; to produce exciting learning for a diverse community of thinkers; and to provide education for positive and productive citizenship.
Description: The Institute for African American Studies is an academic studies program for students and a cultural repository and resource for Georgia citizens. Through a multidisciplinary approach, the Institute offers many courses in the core curriculum and fosters research and scholarly mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students. Through cooperation of departments in coordinating courses in the area, an undergraduate degree or certificate in African American Studies is offered. In addition to the certificate, the institute sponsors events that support a quality education. Scholars in the Institute oversee publication of "The Langston Hughes Review" and issue "Womanist Theory and Research," a pioneering, acclaimed journal.