The African Diaspora Fellows Program

The African Diaspora Fellows Program (ADFP) provides professional development for middle and high school social studies, world language, and English language arts teachers. Through participation in ADFP, teachers enhance their expertise in teaching about the histories, politics, and cultures of African diaspora communities in the Americas, Europe, and other world regions.

The African Diaspora Fellows Program is designed to:

  • Enhance and strengthen teachers’ knowledge of the histories, politics, and cultures of African diaspora communities in the Americas, Europe, and other world regions.

  • Develop curriculum units and materials on the African diaspora for grades 6-12 social studies, world languages, and English language arts classes.

  • Disseminate curriculum units and materials on the African diaspora for grades 6-12 social studies, world languages, and English language arts classes through online platforms and in-person presentations.

  • Increase implementation of curriculum units and materials on the African diaspora into grades 6-12 social studies, world languages, and English language arts courses.

Co-founder and Director of the African Diaspora Fellows Program, Kia Caldwell

Co-founder and former Co-director, Emily Chávez

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Articles

Nicholas Allen, “Kia Caldwell and Emily Chávez on Engaging the African Diaspora in K-12 Education,” UNC Worldview, July 28, 2020.

Emily Chávez, “Centering Black, Latinx and POC Histories, Communities and Voices in Education,” Duke Civic Engagement, February 8, 2019.

2020-2021 Events

March 25, 2021 - UNC Worldview Workshop, “Africa and the African Diaspora: Past and Present”

March 11, 2021 - Book Talk sponsored by the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, “Teaching the African Diaspora: Dialogues on K-12 Education Practices” (video available here).

February 4, 2021 - UNC-Duke Consortium in Latin American & Caribbean Studies Outreach Program, “Teaching the African Diaspora in Latin America”

July 29, 2020 - Virtual Book launch for Engaging the African Diaspora in Latin America, co-sponsored with Carolina K-12 (video available here).

Past Programs and Events

July 2016 - Summer Institute: Home, Community and Belonging (UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University)

April 2016 - Telling Our Stories of Home Festival (UNC-Chapel Hill)

June 2015 - Summer Workshop: Integrating African, Afro-Latin American and African American Studies into the Classroom (UNC-Chapel Hill)

Collaborators

  • Durham Public Schools

  • NC Department of Public Instruction

  • African Studies Center at UNC-Chapel Hill

  • Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University

  • John Hope Franklin Center for African and African American History and Culture at Duke University

 

Sponsors

In addition to contributions from our collaborators, the African Diaspora Fellows Program has received support from:

  • U.S. Department of Education

  • Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

  • UNC-Chapel Hill Institute for the Arts & Humanities

  • UNC-Chapel Hill College of Arts & Sciences

  • UNC-Chapel Hill Center for the Study of the American South

  • Duke University Office of Global Affairs and Hanscom Endowment

  • The National Endowment for the Humanities