After a long search to fill a key position, the Obama Foundation on Wednesday named a director for the Obama Presidential Center museum, Louise Bernard (GRD ‘05).
She was...
Wendell Adjetey (African American Studies / History PhD candidate) delivered an impassioned address at the prestigious Walrus Talks in Toronto in May 2017. His message, “...
Carolyn Roberts is an historian of early modern medicine. Her research and teaching interests broadly concern medicine, race, and slavery in the Atlantic world. Her...
We salute this year’s graduating class of the African American Studies Department that includes seven PhD recipients, six recipients of the baccalaureate degree, and...
A feature article by PhD candidate Lucy Caplan, whose research explores the presence of African American culture in the traditionally white space of the theatrical genre of...
Erica James, assistant professor of African American Studies and History of Art, co-edited the new journal issue, Axe 52 (March 2017), whose theme is Art as Caribbean...
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has appointed Jacqueline Goldsby CLIR Distinguished Presidential Fellow.
Goldsby is professor of English and African...
Ed Rugemer has been promoted to Associate Professor of History and African American Studies with tenure at Yale. He was formerly associate professor of History and African...
Professor Elijah Anderson, African American Studies and Sociology, has won the Eastern Sociological Society’s Merit Award. The prestigious award for “distinguished scholars...
The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its fifteenth annual William Sanders Scarborough Prize to Uri McMillan, of the University of...
Lucy Caplan, a PhD student in African American Studies and American Studies at Yale University, has been awarded the distinguished 2016 Stephen and Cynthia Rubin Institute...