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Program alum '76 awarded Howard University doctorate

American Studies Brandeis alumna Julieanna Richardson '76 received an honorary doctorate from Howard University at its 2012 commencement exercises.

Julieanna L. Richardson is the founder of the largest national collection effort of African-American video oral histories on record. She has a diverse background in the humanities, corporate law, television production and the cable television industries and a passion for American Studies and history. 

She founded The HistoryMakers, a national, non-profit educational institution headquartered in Chicago, which is committed to preserving an internationally recognized archival collection of thousands of African American video oral histories. Richardson graduated magna cum laude with a double major in Theatre Arts and American Studies from Brandeis University in 1976.  It was during her studies at Brandeis that she first experienced the power of oral history, while conducting independent research on the Harlem Renaissance and poet and author Langston Hughes. Richardson received her J.D. degree in 1980 from Harvard Law School. (www.thehistorymakers.com)

American Studies at Brandeis congratulates our own on her remarkable achievement.

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Joyce Antler Named Head of Social Sciences Division

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Richard Gaskins and Eileen McNamara, both of American Studies, win two top faculty awards

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Maura Farrelly wins Michael Walzer '56 Award for Teaching

William Goldsmith, retired American studies professor, dies at 90

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Stephen Whitfield details impact of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (LTS Special Collections Spotlight)

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Shilpa Davé selected for Visiting Professors Program 

Brian Donahue on local food and farming (Boston Globe)

Stephen Whitfield wins teaching award

Antler receives Sachar Medallion

The presentation of the Abram L. Sachar Medallion was awarded to Joyce Antler in early June at the Sixtieth Anniversary Celebration of the Brandeis National Committee.  The event included a gala dinner, featuring an address by Brandeis president Jehuda Reinharz.

Farrelly wins Young Scholars in Religion Scholarship

Maura Farrelly has been selected to participate in the 2009-11 Young Scholars in American Religion Program at the Center for Study of Religion and American Culture in Indianapolis, IN.  Funded by a grant from Lilly Endowment, the program assists early career scholars in the field of American Religion with their teaching, research, and professional development.  Ms. Farrelly will participate in a series of six seminars over the course of the next year and half, during which time she will produce a scholarly paper and design a new course which she hopes to offer at Brandeis during the 2010-11 academic year.

Joyce Antler wins Best Book award

Joyce Antler has received the 2008 Emily Toth Award from the Popular Culture/American Culture Association for Best Book on Women's Issues in Popular and American Culture. The book, "You Never Call! You never Write!  A History of the Jewish Mother," was also awarded the Sophie Brody Medal Honorable Mention Citation from the Jewish American Library Association for Outstanding Achievement in Jewish Literature.