Research
Center for the Study of African American Culture
The Black Houston History Project
An initiative commited to the research, study and preservation of the history of African American people and institutions in the city of Houston, Texas, from the nineteenth throught the twentieth centuries.
Institute for African American Policy Research
Revived in the 2002-2003 academic year, the Institute for African American Policy Research is committed to the exploration, study and publication of research related to public policy issues affecting Africana people in the city of Houston.
Annual Africana Studies Research Symposium
Hosted annually by the Institute for African American Policy Research, the symposium explores critical issues in Africana Studies research through presentations by scholars from across the United States and with designed academic publication outcome.
Goal
To explore and promote thorough research and scholarship of African people on the Continent and throughout the Diaspora analytically and critically to benefit the collective consciousness of African people and to contribute to the rich legacy of research and scholarship within the discipline of African American/Africana/Black Studies.
Objectives
- Maintain a program for visiting scholars who conduct research, teach courses in their areas of expertise and offer lectures to the university community.
- Establish a research mentoring program for undergraduate and graduate students
- Establish an endowed chair in African American Studies.
- Build and develop the African American Studies Program into full status
- Department at the University of Houston with both undergraduate and graduate programs.
