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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.”
News from Africana Studies
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.
Africana Studies Responds to Devastating Fires at University of Cape Town
Africana Studies extends our deepest regrets to the University of Cape Town after the devastating fires on their campus. We have enjoyed long and close ties through the Trilateral Reconnection Project, and remember fondly the wellspring of resources there.
Late Professor Dzidzienyo Honored at Baccalaureate 2021
On its 50th anniversary, Rites and Reason Theatre says goodbye to its ‘beating heart’
A virtual fete on Tuesday, Dec. 15, will pay tribute to Karen Allen Baxter, who has served as senior managing director of Brown’s Rites and Reason Theatre since 1988.