Till-Mobley evokes a sort of mythic archetype, according to Thomas Allen Harris, a Yale University professor of film and media studies who likened her “dealing with a...
The American Studies Association—the oldest and largest scholarly association devoted to the interdisciplinary study of U.S. cultures and histories—is proud to recognize the...
Back in 2019—before COVID-19, before the global reckoning on race and racial justice, before January 6, 2021 quickened and amplified the attack-in-progress on democracy—...
The Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History is awarded each year to the best book in “theatre history or cognate disciplines” published during the...
Yale’s Jacqueline Goldsby and Meredith McGill of Rutgers University recently received a $1.7 million grant from The Mellon Foundation to support the development of The Black...
NYU’s Zoom book launch for Prof. Alexandra Vazquez’s The Florida Room.
The Florida Room compresses the wide, deep, and volatile politics and poetics of the global south—its...
Since the end of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, large numbers of Black people have made their way into settings previously occupied exclusively by whites....
There was never a question for photographer and filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris that family, history, and photography were all tangled together, forming deep roots that...
Babette Thomas is a current podcaster in residence for SF MOMA’s Raw Material Podcast. This season is titled Visions of Black Futurity and centering it around the...
ATTENTION: the 2022 deadline for transfer applications has now been extended. All students who are interested in applying to transfer into the Combined Ph.D. program may...
Jacqueline Goldsby, who has opened new avenues for African American studies and the study of literature both at Yale and beyond, has been appointed the Thomas E. Donnelley...
