2024 DAAAS Diploma & Awards Ceremony

The Department of African & African American Studies (DAAAS) welcomes you to join the community on Sunday, June 16th, 2024, at 2 PM PST at the Tresidder Oak Lounge at Stanford University for our 2024 DAAAS Diploma & Awards Ceremony! Join us as we celebrate our graduates and present undergraduate awards to our graduating class of 2024!
This year, we'll be featuring Drumming from Ghana by Odum during this special ceremony!
African & African American Studies Ceremony Schedule:
Processional | AAAS Class of 2024
Invocation and Libations | Rev. Dr. Sakena Young-Scaggs, Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean for Religious & Spiritual Life and Pastor of Memorial Church
Welcome | Dr. Katie Dieter, DAAAS Director of Advanced Studies and Community Engaged Learning
AAAS Undergraduate & Graduate Awards | Dr. Kimberly McNair, DAAAS Lecturer
Keynote Address | Professor Ato Quayson, DAAAS Chair
Student Address | Brittany Linus & Osadolor Osawemwenze, AAAS 2024 Graduates
Diploma Presentations | Ashante Johnson, DAAAS Student Services Officer (SSO)
Letters to the Graduates | Graduate Families & Guests
Closing Remarks | Professor Vaughn Rasberry, DAAAS Faculty
African & African American Studies Graduating Class of 2024:
Majors
Brittany Linus*
Osadolor Osawemwenze*
Minors
Sloan Charles
Charleny Martinez Reyes
Kamau MuseMorris
Adria Nyarko
Azana Queen
Roman Scott
*Indicates Honors in the Program in African and African American Studies
A Brief History of the Department of African & African American Studies (DAAAS):
The Department of African & African American Studies (DAAAS) at Stanford University - the first ethnic studies program developed at Stanford University and the first African and African American Studies program at a private institution in the U.S.
DAAAS students study Blackness through the lens of art, language, literature, politics, religion, dance, history, music, poetry, and comparative analyses. Black Studies was founded out of community demand, and so, our students also engage in community engaged learning opportunities to continue with this meaningful tradition. The AAAS Department offers three tracks for students in African American Studies, African Studies, and Global Black Diaspora Studies.
DAAAS promotes an understanding of how history informs the present and inspires an engagement with the past in order to collectively dream a more just and equitable future. Our faculty, staff, and students value the interrelated nature of the personal and the political and aim to create a community that allows for intellectual and personal flourishing.
Congratulations to the AAAS graduates, their families, and their communities. Thank you to everyone who made this event possible-- this ceremony would not be without all of you!