Congratulations to our chair and professor, Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara, who has been awarded with the 2026 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award! Dr. Clark-Pujara joins twelve other faculty members who have been chosen to receive this year’s …
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What is Community-Based Learning?
Community-based learning courses (CBL) are courses that incorporate at least 25 hours of meaningful community engagement with course content so you can get real-world experience as part of a for-credit class. This may look like …
Dr. Clark-Pujara publishes essay in “Lingering Inland” anthology
Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara joins 72 writers in the University of Illinois Press’ “Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of The Midwest” anthology with her essay, “Rachel: Fort Crawford Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin”, published in December 2025. …
Dr. Mosi Adesina Ifatunji named Honored Instructor for Fall 2025 semester
Congratulations to Dr. Mosi Adesina Ifatunji, professor of African American Studies and Sociology, who has been named an Honored Instructor for the Fall 2025 semester through UW Housing. This marks Dr. Ifatunji’s third Honored Instructor …
Dr. Brittney Edmonds joins editorial board at The Black Scholar
Dr. Brittney Edmonds has joined the editorial board for the oldest continuously published journal in Black studies, The Black Scholar, as their Associate Editor. “Founded on the premise that Black writers, scholars, activists and artists …
Professor Shashko named Honored Instructor for the Fall 2025 semester
Professor Alexander Shashko has been named an Honored Instructor for the Fall 2025 semester through UW Housing, a completely student-led award initiative. Each semester, University Housing requests nominations from students on educators who have inspired …
Essence Community visits Chicago
The Essence Theme Community traveled to Chicago this fall on a daylong field trip designed to offer students an artful and educational experience, coinciding with the Department of African American Studies’ ongoing work to transition …
Alumni production
“Porcelain Dolls and Chocolate Dreams,” a new student-written and student-directed play by UW–Madison African American Studies alum DeOnna Garrison, brings a rare spotlight to Black experiences on predominantly white campuses, and the cast says the …
New faculty member studies policing, race, and the carceral state
Dr. Max Felker-Kantor joined the Department of African American Studies as an Associate Professor in fall 2025. Affiliated with the Department of History and the Department of Educational Policy Studies, Felker-Kantor’s scholarship focuses on policing, …
Pulitzer winner meets with students
Percival Everett visited UW–Madison this November as part of the university’s Go Big Read program, which selected his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel James for the 2025–26 academic year. The novel reimagines Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from …