Professor Christy Clark-Pujara will open the PBS Wisconsin America at 250 Education Summit to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. She will explore the complexity of the people, places, values, and experiences of the time leading up to and after the American Revolution. Drawing directly from primary sources, including …
The 2025–2026 academic year has been a banner year for the Department of African American Studies. We celebrated our 55th anniversary with a three-day symposium attended by over 100 alumni, faculty, students, staff, administrators, friends of the department, and community members. We welcomed two new faculty members, Professors Sabrina Thomas and Max Felker-Kantor, who have …
Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara’s forthcoming article for the Journal of the Early Republic, “Black Love and Joy: The Pleasure of Correspondence in early Wisconsin, 1850 – 1857”, explores the letters of Caroline Shepard, a free Black woman in southwest Wisconsin, and her aunt, Caroline Milford/Mason, writing from Virginia between 1850 and 1857. Despite 900 miles of …
This summer, Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara has been leading a six-week seminar in partnership with Madison’s non-profit organization, the Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development. The course, “Slavery and Capitalism”, explores and recognizes the history of forced labor of people of African descent and how those forced contributions developed the U.S. economy. The course allows members …