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November 16, 2022
Yale faculty members Daphne Brooks and Braxton Shelley recently won top prizes from professional musical societies for their groundbreaking music scholarship. read more
November 16, 2022
Yale faculty members Daphne Brooks and Braxton Shelley recently won top prizes from professional musical societies for their groundbreaking music scholarship. Read article.
October 14, 2022
Till-Mobley evokes a sort of mythic archetype, according to Thomas Allen Harris, a Yale University professor of film and media studies who likened her “dealing with a...
October 13, 2022
The American Studies Association—the oldest and largest scholarly association devoted to the interdisciplinary study of U.S. cultures and histories—is proud to recognize the...
October 12, 2022
Back in 2019—before COVID-19, before the global reckoning on race and racial justice, before January 6, 2021 quickened and amplified the attack-in-progress on democracy—...
October 4, 2022
The Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History is awarded each year to the best book in “theatre history or cognate disciplines” published during the...
August 11, 2022
Yale’s Jacqueline Goldsby and Meredith McGill of Rutgers University recently received a $1.7 million grant from The Mellon Foundation to support the development of The Black...
April 18, 2022
NYU’s Zoom book launch for Prof. Alexandra Vazquez’s The Florida Room. The Florida Room compresses the wide, deep, and volatile politics and poetics of the global south—its...
March 24, 2022
Since the end of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, large numbers of Black people have made their way into settings previously occupied exclusively by whites....
February 9, 2022
There was never a question for photographer and filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris that family, history, and photography were all tangled together, forming deep roots that...
February 2, 2022
Babette Thomas is a current podcaster in residence for SF MOMA’s Raw Material Podcast. This season is titled Visions of Black Futurity and centering it around the...