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ASI`s Associate Director, Dr. Fiona Vernal, is making a huge community impact by collecting Connecticut oral histories using the online platform, TheirStory. Check out the link in the bio to read more about Dr. Vernal and her oral history projects.
ASI`s Associate Director, Dr. Fiona Vernal, is making a huge community impact by collecting Connecticut oral histories using the online platform, TheirStory. Check out the link in the bio to read more about Dr. Vernal and her oral history projects.
We’re so proud to celebrate Trinity Stewart, one of our outstanding Africana Studies students, for being selected as a 2025 Mellon Scholar with the Library Company of Philadelphia! Trinity’s dedication to scholarship, research, and uplifting Black histories continues to inspire our community. Congratulations on this incredible opportunity!🎊🎉
We’re so proud to celebrate Trinity Stewart, one of our outstanding Africana Studies students, for being selected as a 2025 Mellon Scholar with the Library Company of Philadelphia! Trinity’s dedication to scholarship, research, and uplifting Black histories continues to inspire our community. Congratulations on this incredible opportunity!🎊🎉
Faculty Spotlights 📚✨
We are proud to highlight the brilliance and impact of Professors Deirdre Cooper Owens, David Embrick, and Fumilayo Showers: three visionary scholars advancing critical conversations on race, gender, and health equity.
Faculty Spotlights 📚✨
We are proud to highlight the brilliance and impact of Professors Deirdre Cooper Owens, David Embrick, and Fumilayo Showers: three visionary scholars advancing critical conversations on race, gender, and health equity.
Alumni Spotlight✨
Help us Celebrate our incredible alumni who exemplify leadership dedication and their lasting impact long after leaving campus. Take a look at Alicia, Tony, and Wafiyyah who continue to inspire through their acheivements!
#AlumniSpotlight #UConnASI
Alumni Spotlight✨
Help us Celebrate our incredible alumni who exemplify leadership dedication and their lasting impact long after leaving campus. Take a look at Alicia, Tony, and Wafiyyah who continue to inspire through their acheivements!
#AlumniSpotlight #UConnASI
Senior Spotlight Part 2🎓✨
Jewel and Charlotte are both brilliant scholars and change-makers leaving their mark on Uconn and beyond. Let’s celebrate their journey! #africanastudies
Senior Spotlight Part 2🎓✨
Jewel and Charlotte are both brilliant scholars and change-makers leaving their mark on Uconn and beyond. Let’s celebrate their journey! #africanastudies
Senior Spotlights🎓⚡️✨
Join us in celebrating the brilliance and excellence of Foluke, Liza, and Eyram: three incredible seniors who have left their mark on Africana Studies Institute and the UConn community. We are proud to honor their accomplishments along their undergraduate journey as they step into the next chapter!
#seniorspotlight #UConnASI
Senior Spotlights🎓⚡️✨
Join us in celebrating the brilliance and excellence of Foluke, Liza, and Eyram: three incredible seniors who have left their mark on Africana Studies Institute and the UConn community. We are proud to honor their accomplishments along their undergraduate journey as they step into the next chapter!
#seniorspotlight #UConnASI
Hello UConn Africana Family! Over the course of the next few days, we will be sharing our spotlights of featured students, alumni, facility. Get to know the students and faculty of ASI and their amazing accomplishments! ✨
Hello UConn Africana Family! Over the course of the next few days, we will be sharing our spotlights of featured students, alumni, facility. Get to know the students and faculty of ASI and their amazing accomplishments! ✨
Join Prof. Alexis Boylan as she explores how visual culture shapes perceptions of violence, race, gender, empathy, and identity. This course highlights works produced by and about African Americans, critically examining the intersection of art and social understanding.
Please Contact alexis.boylan@uconn.edu for a permission number
Join Prof. Alexis Boylan as she explores how visual culture shapes perceptions of violence, race, gender, empathy, and identity. This course highlights works produced by and about African Americans, critically examining the intersection of art and social understanding.
Please Contact alexis.boylan@uconn.edu for a permission number
Real Life into Reel Life, Your Truth in Script Form
Asha Michelle Wilson, Writer/Producer/Actor/Showrunner
Join the event on YouTube Live on March 4th at 5:30pm with this link:
Link: s.uconn.edu/wilson
The most common advice given to writers is "write what you know." Determining how much of that should be in your script is a different story. This discussion will focus on how to bring your authentic and diverse POV to the script and screen, while maintaining story, comedy, and character. It will also speak to how to keep reality alive when writing genre television (animation, horror, sci-fi), and how to know when a truth from real life, might not fit into the reel life that`s been created.
About the Speaker:
ASHA MICHELLE WILSON is a writer currently in development on series with Sony TV and 20th Century Fox, as well as being Co-Executive Producer on the Fox animated series The Great North. She has previously developed with and written on series for Netflix, Amazon, Paramount, and FX, including American Horror Story and Archer. Her short film Friends Like These won the London Shorts Festival, and she was listed as one of BET’s Six Black Female Showrunners Who Inspired TV’s Diverse Renaissance.
Real Life into Reel Life, Your Truth in Script Form
Asha Michelle Wilson, Writer/Producer/Actor/Showrunner
Join the event on YouTube Live on March 4th at 5:30pm with this link:
Link: s.uconn.edu/wilson
The most common advice given to writers is "write what you know." Determining how much of that should be in your script is a different story. This discussion will focus on how to bring your authentic and diverse POV to the script and screen, while maintaining story, comedy, and character. It will also speak to how to keep reality alive when writing genre television (animation, horror, sci-fi), and how to know when a truth from real life, might not fit into the reel life that`s been created.
About the Speaker:
ASHA MICHELLE WILSON is a writer currently in development on series with Sony TV and 20th Century Fox, as well as being Co-Executive Producer on the Fox animated series The Great North. She has previously developed with and written on series for Netflix, Amazon, Paramount, and FX, including American Horror Story and Archer. Her short film Friends Like These won the London Shorts Festival, and she was listed as one of BET’s Six Black Female Showrunners Who Inspired TV’s Diverse Renaissance.
Africana studies would like to congratulate Dr. Deirdre Cooper-Owens on being named the Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-In-Residence at Occidental College in California!
She will be in residence at Occidental starting on February 18th 2025 , giving a public lecture on Slavery, Gynecology and Black Placental Resistance. Read the article linked in our bio to learn more about this exciting accomplishment!
Africana studies would like to congratulate Dr. Deirdre Cooper-Owens on being named the Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-In-Residence at Occidental College in California!
She will be in residence at Occidental starting on February 18th 2025 , giving a public lecture on Slavery, Gynecology and Black Placental Resistance. Read the article linked in our bio to learn more about this exciting accomplishment!
2/7/25 - An Afro- Caribbean in the Nazi Era
Join the African American Cultural Center and the Africana Studies Institute for an informative session on one of the few Black Nazi Concentration Camp survivors.
About the Speaker:
Mary Romney-Schaab was born in New York City, but her family is from the Caribbean island nation of St. Maarten.
With roots in the Caribbean, She is interested in African Diaspora history, oral history, languages, and culture. As a retired educator, she spent over 40 years teaching English as a second or foreign language in Madrid, New York, Barcelona, and Connecticut.
2/7/25 - An Afro- Caribbean in the Nazi Era
Join the African American Cultural Center and the Africana Studies Institute for an informative session on one of the few Black Nazi Concentration Camp survivors.
About the Speaker:
Mary Romney-Schaab was born in New York City, but her family is from the Caribbean island nation of St. Maarten.
With roots in the Caribbean, She is interested in African Diaspora history, oral history, languages, and culture. As a retired educator, she spent over 40 years teaching English as a second or foreign language in Madrid, New York, Barcelona, and Connecticut.
Thato Mwosa,
Illustrator/Screenwriter/Playwright/Filmmaker, Assistant Professor at Emerson College
Join the event on YouTube Live on February 4th at 5:30pm with this link:
https://www.youtube.com/live/Z8AsWiT_uw4
This talk explores the power of storytelling to authentically represent the lives of Black women and girls, free from stereotypes and external expectations. Featuring screenings of two short films, Stay Here with Me and Temple, it highlights the filmmaker`s dedication to celebrating the brilliance of Black and Brown girls in environments that often undervalue their potential, portraying their stories with authenticity and emotional depth. The discussion will also explore the systemic barriers and resource limitations marginalized filmmakers face, advocating for increased support to amplify diverse and authentic voices and reach broader audiences.
Thato R. Mwosa is an award-winning illustrator, screenwriter, playwright, and filmmaker. Her films have been broadcast nationally and internationally. Her first feature film, Memoirs of a Black Girl, premiered at the 2021 Boston Globe’s Black History Month Film Festival and it won Best Feature Film award at the 2021 Hamilton Black Film Festival and the 2021 the Roxbury International Film Festival (RIFF).
Thato`s artwork has been featured at the Wortiz Gallery, Dudley Cafe and The Amory. She was twice selected as the artist of the month for the Milton Public Library`s Wortiz Gallery. Thato launched an African trivia card game SAWA Trivia in 2020 which is being used by several universities and high schools. In the summer of 2021, she released her first book, 14 African Women Who Made History. Thato has taught film and screenwriting classes at Boston University, Harvard University and Lesley University. She is an Assistant Professor at Emerson College.
This event is brought to you by UConn’s Department of Digital Media & Design in partnership with UConn’s Africana Studies Institute
Thato Mwosa,
Illustrator/Screenwriter/Playwright/Filmmaker, Assistant Professor at Emerson College
Join the event on YouTube Live on February 4th at 5:30pm with this link:
https://www.youtube.com/live/Z8AsWiT_uw4
This talk explores the power of storytelling to authentically represent the lives of Black women and girls, free from stereotypes and external expectations. Featuring screenings of two short films, Stay Here with Me and Temple, it highlights the filmmaker`s dedication to celebrating the brilliance of Black and Brown girls in environments that often undervalue their potential, portraying their stories with authenticity and emotional depth. The discussion will also explore the systemic barriers and resource limitations marginalized filmmakers face, advocating for increased support to amplify diverse and authentic voices and reach broader audiences.
Thato R. Mwosa is an award-winning illustrator, screenwriter, playwright, and filmmaker. Her films have been broadcast nationally and internationally. Her first feature film, Memoirs of a Black Girl, premiered at the 2021 Boston Globe’s Black History Month Film Festival and it won Best Feature Film award at the 2021 Hamilton Black Film Festival and the 2021 the Roxbury International Film Festival (RIFF).
Thato`s artwork has been featured at the Wortiz Gallery, Dudley Cafe and The Amory. She was twice selected as the artist of the month for the Milton Public Library`s Wortiz Gallery. Thato launched an African trivia card game SAWA Trivia in 2020 which is being used by several universities and high schools. In the summer of 2021, she released her first book, 14 African Women Who Made History. Thato has taught film and screenwriting classes at Boston University, Harvard University and Lesley University. She is an Assistant Professor at Emerson College.
This event is brought to you by UConn’s Department of Digital Media & Design in partnership with UConn’s Africana Studies Institute