The Center for African American Studies at Princeton University is pleased to announce that it plans to grant certificates in African American Studies to 37 students in the Class of 2013. Students who have earned a certificate in African American Studies have taken the opportunity to study African American history and culture and the role that race has played in shaping the life and the institutions of the United States.

Next fall, CAAS is offering 11 seminars and/or lectures including AAS 201: Introduction to the Study of African American Cultural Practices. In addition, we will be offering a new lecture taught by Professor Alexandra Vazquez AAS 412: Cultures of the Afro-Diaspora, and a new seminar AAS 327: Blackness in the Early Modern Atlantic World to be taught by Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts Postdoctoral Fellow in Race and Ethnicity Studies Larissa Brewer-Garcia.

Roger Q. Mason ’08 was an English major with certificates in African American Studies and Theatre. While at Princeton University, he was the Artistic Director of Black Arts Company: Drama. Find out more about his time at Princeton, his writing, the experience of graduating from Princeton during the height of the Recession, and how he has spent his last five years since graduating.

We cordially invite all Princeton University alumni, graduating seniors, staff, and faculty to join us for an open house to find out more about the center’s faculty members, courses, programming, certificate programs, and ways in which you as an alumnus can be involved. Wine and hors d'oeuvres will be served.