Oluwatosin Philip Adeyemi, a second-year master’s student, shares a synopsis of his thesis and inspirations Philip Adeyemi’s research in the African American studies field offers an intervention into how we engage with visual histories of …
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Disrupting normalcies in higher education
Dr. LaShawn Faith Washington on the cruciality of a Black feminist education “bell hooks urges us to transgress. She gives us an avenue to think about the academy in a non-white manner; hooks teaches us …
Gavin Huismann on finding history and purpose
“When I was a Master’s student, I made a discovery in the digitized archives. I found records of Henry Tutt, a Black man who was advocating for Black voting rights and petitioning for a name …
Night at the Theater
On March 6, 2025, students and faculty from the Department of African American Studies came together to attend a performance of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, a University Theater production directed by Baron Kelly. Sixty-eight …
Collaging life
A conversation with Dr. Quanda Johnson Quanda Johnson’s personal and professional journey resists a single definition. “I am a collage,” she says simply. “I am collaging my life together.” When she speaks, her language pulses …
Twenty tracks indicative of 1970
Music scholar, historian, and African American Studies lecturer Alexander Shashko turns the clock back fifty-five years: “This was supposed to be a list of ten songs from 1970, the year that the Department of African …
Heaven Williams, Micah Scarlett, and Rayna Cunningham receive the 2025 Tom Shick Award
The Tom Shick Award is given to undergraduate or graduate students who have maintained a high academic standing and who have demonstrated an intellectual vigor and concern for racial equality that epitomizes the life of …
Melanie Herzog presents at the National Gallery of Art
Last Saturday, April 5th, African American studies lecturer Melanie Herzog served as a moderator and presenter on the panel: “A Sense of Purpose and Integrity” at the National Gallery of Art’s Elizabeth Catlett exhibition. With …
A Soulful Sojourn: Conversations of Antiblackness, Spirituality, and the Quest for Liberation
“The main goal of this project is two-fold,” Courtney Parker West writes, describing her latest podcast project, “In light of the recent regime change and the waterfall of policy changes happening that will continue to …
Dr. Brittney Edmonds on SNL101
The interdisciplinary lab group PoSH (Philosophy, Psychology, and Pedagogy of Satire and Humor) announces a special episode of SNL101, a podcast designed for educators who use Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketches as teaching tools. Hosted …