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Prof. Muigai has been named 2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. This program recognizes extraordinary scholars and writers to support scholarship in the humanities and social sciences that addresses enduring issues confronting society. She is the second Brandeis faculty member to be chosen by the program.
Prof. Williams shares his expertise following Gen. Colin Powell's passing in The Conversation and NBC News.
Professor Carina Ray joins the editorial team of New African Histories, the leading book series in African history.
Prof. Muigai has been selected to receive the 2021 Michael L. Walzer ’56 Award for Teaching. This award is given annually to a tenure-track faculty member who combines superlative scholarship with inspiring teaching.
Prof. Smith has been selected to receive the School of Arts and Sciences Faculty Service Award for 2019-2020. This recognizes outstanding service contributions to departments, programs and the University by members of the School of Arts and Sciences.
2020-2021
March 22, 2021
On March 22, award- winning NYT & Essence journalist Linda Villarosa joined Professor Wangui Muigai's class for a conversation on race and health.
March 17, 2021
"Black Privacy," the special issue of The Black Scholar, co-edited by Professors Samantha Pinto and Shoniqua Roach was hosted Professor Angela Davis and Professor Johnnetta Cole.
November 13, 2020
On November 13, Professor Rickford delivered the 35th annual Ruth First Memorial Lecture over zoom.
2019-2020
March 19, 2020
Prof. Roach convened a forum entitled, "(Re)turning to “Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women": A Black Feminist Forum on the Culture of Dissemblance," exploring Darlene Clark Hine's canonical Black feminist essay.February 20, 2020
Patrick Sylvain (2019-20 Evan Frankel Fellow, PhD candidate) got on of his poems, titled "Rebirth" published in an Australian literary journal—Verity La.February 19, 2020
Abigail Cooper, associate AAAS professor, has article discussing African Americans lives in Civil War Refugee camps in the Futurity.February 5, 2020
AAAS Affiliated Faculty Prof. Wooden Featured in BrandeisNow discussing "Reimagining Blackness."November 21, 2019
Professor Shoniqua Roach curated a digital symposium featuring Jennifer C. Nash in conversation with scholars engaging with Nash's Black Feminism Reimagined.2018-2019
April 16, 2019
Learn about the full story of the misunderstood and misrepresented chapter in American history from the PBS special "Reconstruction: America after the Civil War" featuring Professor Chad Williams.
February 11, 2019
The weekend featured Angela Davis '65, Julieanna Richardson '76, H'16, Hortense Spillers, PhD'74 and more.
February 11, 2019
Take a trip through the history of the African and African American studies department at Brandeis, which marked its 50-year anniversary milestone with a two-day academic symposium.
February 11, 2019
Re-live some of the best moments from the African and African American Studies department's 50th anniversary commemoration in this slideshow.
Photo Credit: Ashley McCabe
February 11, 2019
Hortense J. Spillers, PhD’74, an American literary critic, black feminist scholar and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, has been honored with the Brandeis University Alumni Achievement Award. Provost Lisa Lynch presented the award at the conclusion of the African and African American Studies Department’s 50th Anniversary commemoration held on campus February 8-9.
Photo Credit: Andrew Baxter, The Justice
February 12, 2019
(The Justice) Fifty years after the Ford Hall occupation in 1969, the Brandeis community gathered to commemorate the 50th anniversary of one of the demands those students made: an African and Afro-American Studies department — now called the African and African American Studies department.
Photo Credit: Andrew Baxter, The Justice
February 12, 2019
(The Justice) Hundreds of Brandeis students, faculty and alumni convened in Levin Ballroom on Feb. 9 for the AAAS and Alumni Legacies Panel as part of the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the the Department of African and African American Studies.
Photo Credit: Andrew Baxter, The Justice
February 12, 2019
(The Justice) Angela Davis ’65 spoke about her experiences as an activist and Brandeis student on Friday as the keynote speaker for an event series commemorating the African and African American Studies Department’s 50th anniversary.
Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department
February 5, 2019
(The Justice) The Department of African and African American Studies (AAAS), established on April 24, 1969, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week, but the history of Black students and their influence at Brandeis existed long before then.
February 1, 2019
Sophomore Kwesi Jones is an artist in every sense of the word. His latest work showcases the history of black studies at Brandeis through film.
Photo Credit: “Lou Outlaw,” a.k.a. Lucius T. Outlaw (Jr.)
February 1, 2019
Hortense J. Spillers PhD'74 is an American literary critic, black feminist scholar and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, and on Feb. 9 will receive Brandeis' Alumni Achievement Award during the African and African American studies 50th Anniversary Commemoration.
But before she began accumulating awards as a leader in her field, she was a newly-minted PhD candidate driving a Buick Skylark from Memphis to Brandeis in the tumultuous summer of 1968. In answer to questions posed by Faith Lois Smith, associate professor of African and African American Studies and English, Spillers discussed her evolution as a scholar and what black feminist theory can teach us in the present moment.
January 31, 2019
The 50th Anniversary Commemoration of African and African American studies features a two-day academic and cultural symposium on Feb. 8-9.
Fall 2018
Congratulations to AAAS affiliate faculty member Janet McIntosh whose book, "Unsettled: Denial and Belonging Among White Kenyans," received an Honorable Mention for the American Ethnological Society's Senior Book Prize.