Statement of Purpose

Our goal is to facilitate faculty, postgraduate, and graduate research in African and African diaspora studies in the social sciences and the humanities and to foster the comparative, cross-national, and interdisciplinary dimensions of research with a core group of leading scholars. These research efforts are linked to larger local and international community concerns. The Center also oversees the undergraduate African Studies Minor.

For more information regarding AAASRC, or to be on our mailing list, call (858) 534-9063 or email bjulesrosette@ucsd.edu. We have an extensive list of resources on issues concerning African and African-American communities, newsletters and information about African Studies, as well as the experience and relationships that have been acquired over AAASRC’s thirty-two years in existance.

Contact AAASRC

Director: Prof. Bennetta Jules-Rosette <bjulesrosette@ucsd.edu>
Coordinator: Zoe Catz Johnson <zcatzjohnson@ucsd.edu>
Phone: (858) 534-9063
Mail: 9500 Gilman Dr
La Jolla, CA 92093-0533

About AAASRC

 AAASRC is an independent research unit of the University of California, San Diego with a rich, thirty-two-year history. Several European and African institutions have established ongoing relationships with the Center most notably, the Centre d’Étude d’Afrique Noire (CÉAN) at the Université de Bordeaux I V, the Université de Paris V, the African Studies Research Centre (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 African, African-American, and multicultural research issues and teaching at UCSD. We look forward to the upcoming year with enthusiasm and energy.