David W. Blight has been awarded the 2019 Putlizer Prize for his widley acclaimed biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.” Blight’s book was lauded for being “a...
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia will host a seminar titled “Race, Poverty, and the Irregular Economy” with Elijah
Anderson on Friday, April 12, in Philadelphia...
On April April 4 this year at the National Sawdust in Brooklyn, Lucy Caplan, in partnership with AMOC, led “Listening to Tom-Tom, a discussion of the 1932 opera by author,...
In an interview published on Yale Herald, Simone Browne, a Presidential Visiting Fellow in theAfrican American Studies Department for the 2018–2019 academic year, and an...
Daphne Ann Brooks, recently named as the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of African American Studies, is a scholar of African-American literature and culture, performance...
The New Yorker published a review of Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity, a new book by Chris Miller that “examines a series of literary hoaxes, deceptions...
Emily Greenwood, Yale University professor and chair of the Classics Department, was recently honored for her pioneering work in expanding knowledge of how her discipline has...
Elijah Anderson, one of the nation’s most influential scholars in the field of urban inequality, was recently appointed Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African...
“I find that my students learn best when I’m encouraging their questions and then thinking alongside them,” Professor Aimee Cox told Yale’s Center for Teaching and...
Historian Ed Rugemer’s new book, Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World (Oct. 2018), is a comparative history spanning two hundred years...
In his new book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018), David Blight draws on new information held in a private collection that few other historian have consulted, as...
