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Photo of Dean Holloway
March 30, 2015
Dean Jonathan Holloway has been named the Edmund S. Morgan Professor of African American Studies, History and American Studies. Holloway, who became Dean of Yale College in...
Photo of Hazel Carby
February 26, 2015
On the cusps of receiving lifetime achievement awards for their contributions to American studies, Hazel Carby and Michael Denning are featured in an interview published...
Photo of Hazel Carby
February 20, 2015
Hazel Carby has been named the Frank M Updike Memorial Scholar by the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program for 2015-2016. The designation is awarded to a “distinguished...
Photo or Leigh Raiford
February 9, 2015
The Education Project, conducted by Matthew Jacobson, took shape at the crossroads of his documentary work for Historian’s Eye and his participation in the American Studies...
Photo of Elizabeth Alexander: credit: Eliza Griffiths
January 20, 2015
Elizabeth Alexander received two prestigious literary honors at the start of the new year: Alexander was named the first Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale...
Photo of Jordan Konell
December 4, 2014
Jordan Konell (‘15), an undergraduate senior major in African American Studies and Political Science, has won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. Jordan’s superb...
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
November 17, 2014
Angela Onwuachi-Willig is the recipient of the 2014 Clyde Ferguson Award, a prestigious honor given by the Minority Groups section of the Association of American Law Schools...
October 29, 2014
Jamicia Lackey, graduate student in African American Studies and Film Studies, Yale, will participate in a panel discussion following the screening of the film, “Belle,” on...
October 17, 2014
La Marr Bruce,  Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park , is featured in an upcoming film, “The Amazing Bud Powell,” a documentary...
Portrait of Erica James
October 16, 2014
Art Historian and professor Erica Moiah James joins host Nicholas Forster this episode to discuss her life as an artist, curator and scholar. Before becoming a professor at...
Photo of Hazel Carby
October 6, 2014
Speaking of the influence that Hazel Carby has had in the literary field, Jacqueline Goldsby African American Studies Department Acting Chair, says “two critical approaches...