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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In an interview published in the online forum, 3:AM Magazine, Chris Lebron discusses among other topics, Black philosophers in the academy, the uses and sometimes inadequacy...
