The Department of African American Studies is seeking Teaching Assistants for the Spring 2026 semester. Preference will be given to second-year UW-Madison graduate students in good standing, with background in African American Studies or related field (Literature, History, Cultural Studies, Theatre, Art History). Learn more and apply to our open positions below: TA in African …
Dr. Sabrina Thomas will be a guest speaker for a working symposium, The Legacies of Mixed-Race Children Born of War: Kinship, Belonging and Transnational Adoption after World War II. This symposium will be held on November 6, 2025, at the Deutsches Haus at New York University. Learn more and register here.
Dr. Brittney Edmonds, assistant professor of African American Studies, has been awarded the inaugural $50,000 Paul Martin Wolff Center seed grant. Edmonds joins a cross-disciplinary UW-Madison research team. Their project, “1776/2026: The Declaration at 250,” will launch a year-long series of campus events and public conversations offering historical, literary, rhetorical, and political-theoretical interpretations of what …