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Dr. Jessica Stovall (Anna Julia Cooper Fellow) has won a Dissertation Award from Critical Educators for Social Justice (CESJ), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the American Educational Association (AERA). As the largest SIG, CESJ creates space within AERA to develop, support, and promote critical frameworks, public scholarship, and community engagement to challenge inequity in …

Sam Gilliam: Abstraction and Innovation Beyond the Color Field and the Color Line Saturday, January 27, 2024  at 2 pm Free Admission MMoCA Lecture Hall 227 State Street Madison, WI 53704 Scholar and artist Dr. Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis will explore how select Black artists from the American South turned towards abstraction in the post-World …

Christina Greene’s FREE JOAN LITTLE: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence and Imprisonment won the 2023 Frank & Harriet Owsley Prize for the best book in Southern History from the Southern Historical Society.  

“Jnae Thompson, the student speaker at the 2023 Winter Commencement, with her parents.”

This year’s UW–Madison student commencement speaker, Jnae Thompson, is an L&S student majoring in African American Studies with a certificate in Gender & Women’s Studies! “Thompson believes her own story might help others. She entered UW–Madison as a biochemistry major, determined to become an orthopedic surgeon. “I had my entire four-year plan all worked out,” …

Congratulations to Olagbenro Oladipo, Ph.D! He received his MA from the Department of African American Studies in 2018 and bridged into English for his Ph.D. The Department of English at Wayne State University has named him their pre-faculty fellow for the Pathway to Faculty (PTF) program.