College of Letters & Science
Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara and department Alumnus, Dr. Rev. Alexander Gee, joined Channel 3000’s “For the Record” segment to discuss the groundbreaking for The Center of Black Excellence and Culture last Friday. The two were joined by Neil Heinen, who serves on Advisory Council for the Center. Watch the full interview and panel discussion here. …
Yesterday, on Juneteenth 2024, African American Studies Chair, Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara and department alumnus, Rev. Dr. Alex Gee, were joined by hundreds of Madison community members for the groundbreaking ceremony of Madison’s Center for Black Excellence and Culture. Both Gee and Clark-Pujara gave remarks to celebrate the start of construction. The Center for Black Excellence …
92-year-old Madison community member Sarah Wells, a 2007 participant of the UW Odyssey Project, received her diploma from Madison College on Thursday, May 23rd. The UW Odyssey Project offers UW humanities courses to adult students who face economic barriers and obstacles to college, such as homelessness, incarceration, single parenthood, depression, and domestic abuse. Wells notes …
Each year, University Housing requests nominations from students on educators that have inspired their learning and daily practice through the student-lead program “Honored Instructors”. “Professor Mosi Adesina Ifatunji’s lectures are consistently attention grabbing. He makes students interact and use their brain, while maintaining an interesting lesson plan.” — students of the Honored Instructors Program Congratulations …
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 …