“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...
PhD student Demar Lewis (African American Studies / Sociology) has been inducted into the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s prestigious Health Policy Research Scholars program...
a.k. payne (2019) is an English [w a concentration in playwriting] & African-American Studies double major. In fall 2017, Payne directed the Suzan-Lori Parks play,...
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...
