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Prof. Tony Bogues to lead seminar at ICA-Miami
This spring, the Knight Art + Research Center program at ICA-Miami will offer a series of seminars and lectures on the arts and artistic practices of Haiti and the Haitian diaspora from a scholarly and artistic perspective.
Françoise N. Hamlin named Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer
Professor Françoise N. Hamlin has recently been named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians (OAH).
July 20, 2022
News from Brown
Renovation of Churchill House, Rites and Reason Theatre to usher in new era for Africana studies
The 50-year home to Africana studies at Brown, Churchill House will undergo an expansion to make room for new faculty, give graduate students more space, and create new opportunities for one of America’s oldest Black theaters.
Announcing the 2022-2023 Black Voices in the Public Sphere Fellows
In 2021, Boston Review launched the Black Voices in the Public Sphere, a fellowship initiative designed to prepare and support the next generation of Black journalists, editors, and publishers.
Now entering the program’s second year, we are proud to introduce our next cohort of fellows.
Now entering the program’s second year, we are proud to introduce our next cohort of fellows.
June 9, 2021
News from Brown
Brown MFA students win prestigious Kennedy Center playwriting awards
Graduate student playwrights Nkenna Akunna, Seayoung Yim and Christopher Lindsay were recognized with national awards for writing creative scripts that tackle difficult subjects such as racism, misogyny and “fatphobia.”
Out of Frame: Reframing Development Studies
Prof. Geri Augusto asked her seminar class—what if we rooted our development studies analysis in American settler colonialism and racial slavery, rather than in overseas empires?
May 11, 2021
News from Brown
With new special collections policy, John Hay Library aims to diversify the historical canon
The John Hay Library’s new collection policy is intended to support new trends in scholarship on campus and to diversify the personal and community stories told in Brown’s archives and special collections.
As Carnegie fellow, Françoise Hamlin to study psychological toll of civil rights activism on Black Americans
A Carnegie Fellowship will provide support for Françoise Hamlin, an Africana studies and history scholar, to write a book on the risks that young people assumed on the front lines of the civil rights movement.
Congratulating Dr. Watufani Poe, PhD '21
This year, Africana Studies celebrates Dr. Watufani Poe as he completes the Ph.D. program. We are proud of his work and delighted by his accomplishments.