Institutional Scholarship

The African Digital Ethnography Project (ADEPt) gathers data-rich ethnographies from across Africa and the African Diaspora. Our growing repository of video and audio documents what UNESCO calls intangible cultural heritage (ICH), including oral history, performance and ritual. ADEPts list of research sites includes locations in Africa, the Caribbean and North America and will continue to expand. Our focus starting in the 2017-18 academic year is on communities accessible to student researchers in which our faculty researchers have long-standing experience and continued interest. This includes Afro-Cherokee and Gullah-Geechee communities as well as central neighborhoods of Atlanta. With the guidance and support of ADEPts core personnel, Atlanta University Center students and faculty collect new ethnographic data, interpret it and share analyses and content using technology-centered methods and platforms. A primary goal of the project is to engage Morehouse students, largely young Black men, in research that both addresses and transcends current events weighing heavily on our student body, taking them on new journeys of identity formation.

ATAVizM (Algorithmic Thinking, Analysis and Visualization in Music) is a music analysis and visualization software intended for classroom use.

The Atlanta University Center Author Series is a production of the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library librarians. The series began in 2011 when Dr. L.H. Whelchel of the Interdenominational Theological Center was interviewed about his newly published book, The History & Heritage of African-American Churches : A Way Out of No Way. Woodruff Librarians have since gone on to interview members from Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Spelman College and the AUC Woodruff library. Our goal is to showcase, through video interviews with the creators themselves, the most important books, articles and other creative efforts produced by members of our Atlanta University Center community.

This publication series highlights selected scholarly and research contributions of the Atlanta University Center (AUC) community. The bibliographies, which are compiled by the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, illustrate the richness of faculty contributions within each institution and across the AUC community.

This series contains video recordings of lectures and events delivered at the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library.

This collection contains the open access scholarship of the staff of the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library. Open access is the ability to distribute and access scholarly research without restriction. Open access materials include the following, but not limited to, papers, presentations, and videos.

The catalog for Clark Atlanta University provides information on the degree programs, course offerings, policies, procedures, statistics, financial costs, buildings, services, administration staff, Board of Trustees, and faculty.

This collection contains the open access scholarship of the faculty of Clark Atlanta University. Open access is the ability to distribute and access scholarly research without restriction.

The Center for Excellence in Communication Arts launched this journal at Clark Atlanta University which featured research reflecting historical and contemporary perspectives of how media frame and influence social and political agendas while providing frameworks to teach, learn, and study social change issues.

Communication Arts Forum promotes scholarly and professional exchanges that address diverse interests of educators, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers engaged in the fields of mass media, speech communication, and theatre arts. Articles providing innovative perspectives that enrich teaching, research, and professional practices are especially sought. Communication Arts Forum will also consider film and book reviews, commentaries, original interviews, and conference reports.

Endarch: Journal of Black Political Research is a double blind peer-reviewed journal published by Clark Atlanta University Department of Political Science in partnership with Atlanta University Center Robert Woodruff Library. The journal is an online publication. Endarch seeks to reflect, analyze, and generate activity, which will ultimately lead toward the expansion, clarification, and solidification of black political thought. For this purpose, the journal publishes articles that report original investigations and contribute new scholarship to the field of political science.

Continuum highlights research that affects Black women and Black women's contributions to research. As an interdisciplinary journal, Continuum encourages readers to think critically about the intersection between scholarship and Black women's experiences across the diaspora. The publication prepares undergraduate students for graduate studies by encouraging them to develop a passion for research. We are a platform for students around the world to use scholarship to initiate dialogue across disciplines and bring research to the forefront of the collegiate experience.

Enhancing Global Research and Education in STEM at Spelman College (G-STEM) seeks to prepare African-American women within the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) disciplines to be globally engaged upon graduation from Spelman College. Posted on this site are the posters and abstracts of scholars in the G-STEM program. Should you seek full-length copies of the research papers, please email the G-STEM program at gstem@spelman.edu as any rights related to research or copyrighting remains with the research sponsors, authors and the host institution for the research and permission for distribution must be granted by each for said request.

The Heirloom Gardens Oral History Project is a collaboration between Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance, Princeton University, and Spelman College. The project documents stories of people who have been working to preserve Black and Indigenous seed and foodways.

This collection contains the open access scholarship of the faculty of the Interdenominational Theological Center. Open access is the ability to distribute and access scholarly research without restriction.

This collection contains the open access scholarship of the faculty of Morehouse College. Open access is the ability to distribute and access scholarly research without restriction.

Black Past Black Futures features host Dr. Corrie Claiborne interviewing guests on their research and work in different areas of Africana Studies and Black Studies.

Through their own voices and images, this Passing It Forward project links the personal stories of LGBTQ+ elders of color --those around 50 years old and above-- to the political and social movements they are connected to. The collection consists of 150 interviews with LGBTQ+ elders of color, conducted by interviewers of around college age. These intergenerational conversations allow this growing and important population to reflect on their life and wisdom. By doing so, this project provides a venue to allow these individuals to educate and inspire.

This page contains the open access scholarship of the faculty of Spelman College.

Founded in 1980, the Spelman College Honors Program, named for scholar-teacher Ethel Waddell Githii, is interdisciplinary in design recognizing the diversity of our faculty expertise and student creative scholarship. The Githii Honors Program creates original programming and targeted supports for our member students, and collaborates with academic departments and programs to provide a rich array of scholarly and creative venues. These include our annual reading and lecture series, special programs and workshops for the broader campus and the Atlanta community, and cultural engagements on and beyond the campus. The Program spotlights intellectual leadership as a habit of mind and a quality of the ethical citizen.

"Old people's speech is not to be dishonored, after all, they saw the sun first". -Namibian Proverb