College of Letters & Science
Co-curated by Professor Ethelene Whitmire and Leslie Anne Anderson (Chief Curator of the National Nordic Museum), the exhibition entitled “Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century” was profiled by Victoria L. Valentine for Culture Type, an independent art editorial project. Culture Type, a site that covers up-and-coming Black visual artists in addition to established …
On Friday, May 10th, Chancellor Mnookin presented Reverend Dr. Alexander Gee (UW–Madison Class of 1985) with an honorary doctorate degree, in recognition of his outstanding public service work pursuing racial equity in the State of Wisconsin. Congratulations to Dr. Gee on this monumental achievement!
Congratulations to graduating seniors Jnae Thompson and Evan Wooldridge on receiving the Tom Shick Award! Given to students who have “maintained a high academic standing and who have demonstrated the intellectual vigor and concern for racial equality that epitomized the life of Tom W. Shick”, recipients are selected annually by the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity …
Dr. Christina Greene will be signing copies of her latest book, FREE JOAN LITTLE: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment, at A Room of One’s Own bookstore on May 16th from 4-6pm. FREE JOAN LITTLE: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment is the Winner of the 2023 Liberty Legacy Foundation Prize, Best Book …
Our colleague and friend, Nina Liamba, passed away unexpectedly on April 26, 2024. Nina was kind, quiet, and generous. She was a devoted mother, and beloved daughter and sister. Nina had a welcoming spirit and smile. Her easygoing personality and the pictures of her children in her office invited casual conversations about our lives outside …
In her latest publication in Middle West Review, Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara writes “Black people’s existence, resistance to bondage, and experience of freedom were rarely acknowledged or centered in Midwestern scholarship focused on the early American Republic or antebellum era. And even when Black men, women, and children were at the center of a story the …
Professor Sandra Adell joined African American Studies senior Jnae Thompson and International Visiting Scholar Yujie Cao at UW–Madison’s 2024 Gender and Women’s Studies Conference: Honoring Our Past, Securing Our Future: Resilience and Reclamation in Higher Education. Dr. Adell participated in the panel discussion “Black Women’s Narratives of Struggle, Resistance and Change” and presented on …
Throughout the Month of March, Dr. Sandra Adell gave a series of talks about Black women and gambling addiction throughout the State of Illinois. On March 28, 2024, she was a featured speaker with Illinois State Representative LaShawn Ford in Chicago.
The Department of African American Studies hosted a reception last Friday, April 19th, to celebrate Dr. Reverend Alexander Gee, who will be receiving a honorary Doctorate degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison this May. Gee was jointly nominated for the honorary degree by the Department of African American Studies and the Morgridge Center for Public …
The Department of African American Studies would like to congratulate our 2023-2024 Anna Julia Cooper Fellow, Jessica Lee Stovall, on receiving the Outstanding Dissertation Award at the Critical Educators for Social Justice business meeting last week at the AERA (American Education Research Association) conference in Philadelphia. Stovall also participated in the Roundtable discussion: …