“As an African American scholar who has studied the Harlem Renaissance and the experiences of Black Americans living in Denmark, a country I’ve visited 18 times, I have been retracing Larsen’s footsteps in Copenhagen for …
Year: 2024
The Division of the Arts calls for submissions
The Bolz Center for Arts Administration and the Division of the Arts have opened an opportunity for student entrepreneurs with an interest in the arts: Proposals are due by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, January 17, …
Dr. Stovall wins Paul and Kate Farmer English Journal Writing Award
Dr. Jessica Lee Stovall has been awarded the Paul and Kate Farmer English Journal Writing Award for her article “Black Teachers’ Use of Liberatory Design to Promote Literacies of Healing” co-written with Lamar Timmons-Long, Thomas …
Chair’s Letter — Fall 2024
To the African American Studies community, On behalf of our department, I welcome you to the first edition of our African American Studies newsletter, created to provide students, Alumni, and friends of the program with current …
Welcoming Dr. Jessica Lee Stovall
Dr. Stovall joined the Department of African American Studies as an Anna Julia Cooper Postdoctoral Fellow in the fall of 2023 after completing an M.A. in American Literature from Northwestern and a Ph.D. from Stanford …
Graduate Student Interview: Forrest Ashworth
What previous experiences led you here to UW-Madison and into a Masters program in African American Studies? I received my undergraduate degree in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There …
Graduating Senior: Riley Toth
Riley Toth | Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering with an African American Studies Certificate Riley Toth has been fascinated by the mechanics of the body and the implications of technology all his life. …
Dr. Reverend Alexander Gee on Black excellence, innovation, and leadership
During the May 2024 commencement season, the University of Wisconsin-Madison honored Dr. Reverend Alexander Gee, an African American Studies alumnus, with an honorary degree in recognition of his lifelong dedication to advancing racial equality in …
5 Reading Recommendations from Dr. Brittney Edmonds
A Different Drummer (1962) by William Melvin Kelly This debut novel begins with a mystery. A Black local farmer wakes up one morning, salts his fields, shoots his horse and livestock, and burns his house …
10 tracks that influenced and shaped music scholar Alexander Shashko
“Sing” | Sesame Street Cast Like so many folks in my generation, Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood are where our music history begins. “Don’t worry that it’s not good enough for anyone else to …