Otelia Cromwell was the first African American woman to earn the PhD at Yale University (1926).To honor Cromwell’s place in the Yale history, the Yale Women Faculty...
Historians Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter Onuf and David Blight (Class of 1954 Professor of American History) talked about the Declaration of Independence and equality at a forum...
The African American Studies Department happily congratulates our outstanding graduates and degree recipients in 2018!
Read more about our outstanding graduates who were...
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has announced that Aimee M. Cox has been named a 2018 Nancy Weiss Malkiel Scholar.
The Malkiel Scholar program supports...
Crystal Feimster, associate professor of African American Studies and American Studies, will receive this year’s Graduate Mentor Award in the Humanities from the Yale...
Professor Elijah Anderson will receive the W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association at the Annual Meeting in...
Yale College Dean Marvin Chun has named Fadila Habchi, (GRD ’18 ) to be interim dean of Branford College.
Habchi, a PhD candidate in American and African American Studies,...
Crystal Feimster provides historical context to the long tradition of black women speaking out against sexual abuse in a discussion of the film, “The Rape of Recy Taylor,” (...
A creative mid-term assignment devised by Professor Crystal Feimster for her history course, “The Long Civil Rights Movement,” invites students to delve deep into the...
On a recently released episode of GLC podcast, Slavery and Its Legacies, Connor Williams discusses with Thomas Thurston (GLC) the creation of “Voices from the Archive,” an...
NPR’s popular program, “Marketplace,” features music selected by Daphne Brooks, who, as a noted scholar of black popular music, was invited to contribute selected...
