Ethan Mordecai Cargill and Emily Wanger are the 2013 William Pickens Prize winners for outstanding senior essays in the field of African and African American Studies. Both...
Jayne Ptolemy has been awarded the Sylvia Ardyn Boone Prize for 2013. The prize is given annually in the memory of Sylvia Boone, a noted scholar of African art, who was the...
Crystal Feimster is interviewed interview for “Women Under Siege” blog by journalist Kery K. Paterson. Published Thursday, May 9, 2013. http://www.womenundersiegeproject....
Hazel Carby will speak on the panel, “Afrofuturism’s Others,” at Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, London, on Saturday, June 15, 14:00-16:00.
“In the context of Gallagher’...
The Kempf Fund has awarded $10,000 toward the support of “We Have Never Been Human: A Caribbean Studies Approach,” a project proposed by Kaneesha Parsard (African American/...
African American Studies professors Hazel Carby and Jacqueline Goldsby, and doctoral student Heather Vermeulen, will present at “Beyond the Text: Literary Archives in the...
New York Times op-ed by Crystal Feimster, “Rape and Justice in the Civil War” reveals the legal recourse that offered women protections against a wartime standard that...
Elizabeth Alexander will deliver the Toni Morrison Lectures, sponsored by the Center for African American Studies and Princeton University Press, on Thursday, April 25, 5:30...
In a YDN video, Crystal Feimster comments on the close professor-student interaction and other advantages of pursuing a small major. The video also features comments by...
In his Huffington Post blog, Elijah Anderson discusses to what degree social attitudes toward race have changed in the nearly sixty year period marking the murder of two...
Black Citymakers revisits the Black Seventh Ward, documenting a century of banking and tenement collapses, housing activism, black-led anti-urban renewal mobilization, and...
