Fall 2024 Newsletter

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

Alexander Shashko joined the Department of African American Studies in 2005; he holds an MFA in Post-1865 American History from The University of Michigan and a Bachelors of Arts in History and Political Science from …

Rayna Cunningham | Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology with an African American Studies Certificate Rayna Cunningham has spent her time at UW-Madison as both a scholar and an artist. In her last semester as an …

To kick off the fall semester, the Department of African American Studies co-hosted an Ethnic Studies mixer event with Gender and Women’s Studies to mingle, mix, and share ideas between the faculty, staff, and students …

Evan Wooldridge joined more than 8,500 UW-Madison seniors in the Kohl Center and Camp Randall when he graduated in May of 2024. In the same month, Wooldridge was selected as a recipient of the Tom …