College of Arts and Science Vanderbilt University

Program In African American & Diaspora Studies and Research Center

AADS Research Center

 

Center Overview
 
African American and Diaspora Studies launched the Research Center in summer 2012 with annual seed funding from the College of Arts and Science Dean’s Office. The Center is the research arm of the academic program. The AADSRC sponsors lectures, conferences, working groups, professional development and academic seminars, and activities associated with the peer-reviewed journal: Palimpsest: A Journal of Women, Gender, and the Black International (SUNY Press). The Center also serves as a funding source for AADS faculty initiatives as well as initiatives proposed by faculty external to AADS and Vanderbilt that dovetail with the mission and intellectual thrust of the Center, which includes projects relating to internationalism, gender, sexuality, race, academe, and mentoring.  
 
 
Current Center Activities and Initiatives 
  • Palimpsest: A Journal of Women, Gender, and the Black International (www.sunypress.edu/p-5144-palimpsest-biannual.aspx) 
  • National Working Group: Mentoring, Promotion, and Administration at Research Universities: Black Women Academics, from Associate to Full (Summer 2012-)
  • Annual Writing Retreat: "For Black Women...Who Keep Writing...Because Tenure Isn't Enough" (Inaugural Retreat, June 2013 in Fernandina Beach, Amelia Island, Florida)
 
 
For more information on the Center and its activities, please contact the Center Director: T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting (t.sharpley-whiting@vanderbilt.edu)