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Welcome
to the World Wide Web home page for The Carter G. Woodson Institute for
African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. The
Institute was established in 1981 in response to student and faculty demands
for a more coherent African-American and African Studies program and a
more aggressive program of minority recruitment at the University. It
is an interdisciplinary teaching and research center drawing the majority
of its faculty and students from the humanities and social sciences.
SPONSORED RESEARCH PROJECTS
CENTER
FOR THE STUDY OF LOCAL KNOWLEDGE AFRICAN
AMERICAN CEMETERIES IN ALBEMARLE COUNTY J.F. BELL FUNERAL HOME RECORDS  "Carter G. Woodson: Teacher, Historian, Publisher," by Charles H. Austin (1943) Office of War Information, News Bureau; Courtesy of National Archives The
founders of the Woodson Institute chose its name
to honor the Virginia-born founder of African and African American Studies
and to challenge the historically white University to place the African
American experience at the center of its teaching and research programs.
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