Professor Mark Anthony Neal Named a 2013-14 Du Bois Institute Fellow
Professor Mark Anthony Neal has been named a 2013-14 Du Bois Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. The Du Bois Institute is the nation's oldest research center dedicated to the study of the history, culture, and social institutions of…
Professor J. Lorand Matory Awarded the 2013 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award
J. Lorand Matory, Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology and of African and African American Studies, is the 2013 recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award. The Award is granted in recognition of a researcher's entire achievements to date to academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights…
Associate Professor Charmaine Royal Named a Recipient of the 2013-14 Thomas Langford Lectureship Award
Associate Professor Charmaine Royal has been selected as one of five recipients of Duke University's Thomas Langford Lectureship Award for the academic year 2013-14. This program was established in 2000 as a tribute to the memory of Thomas Langford, former Divinity School faculty member, Dean, and Provost, who embodied…
Associate Professor Thavolia Glymph Elected Member of the American Antiquarian Society
Associate Professor Thavolia Glymph has been elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society. The website states that, "members are elected by their colleagues in recognition of scholarship, for support of cultural institutions, for manifest interest in bibliographical matters, or for distinction as community or national leaders in humanistic…
Mhando's Book is Winner of the 2013 New York African Studies Association for the best book on Social History
Visiting Assistant Professor Lindah Mhando's book titled, Nyerere, Africa’s Titan on a Global Scale: Perspectives from Arusha to Obama, published in 2012 by the North Carolina Academic Press, is the winner of the 2013 New York African Studies Association for the best book on Social History.
Feminist Theory and Practice in the African Diaspora
Recasting 'Black Venus' in the new African Diaspora (Part II) Africa at Noon on April 17, 2013 Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe Visiting Associate Professor of African and African American Studies Duke University Description This presentation builds on earlier work, which explored the ways in which transnational feminist analyses can be…
Duke Professor Bruce Hall and AAAS Senior Jennifer Denike on the Battle for Timbuktu
Duke Office Hours The fabled city of Timbuktu has recently been a center of conflict between the French military and Islamic militants. Complicating the clash are tensions within Mali among the country's ethnic groups. In a live "Office Hours" webcast interview Feb. 8, Duke professor Bruce Hall explains some…
Scholars Sketch Bleak Economic Picture for Black Americans
By Michael A. Fletcher, Feb 02, 2013 12:04 AM EST The Washington PostPublished: February 1 Scholars gathered for the African American Economic Summit at Howard University on Friday sketched an alarming picture of the financial ills afflicting the black community even as the nation recovers from the recession. The…
NEH Grants Awarded to AAAS (in Collaboration with the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality) and Matory's Center for African & African American Research
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded AAAS, in collaboration with the Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality, a grant to conduct a three-week summer institute for secondary school teachers to be held in July 2013 on "African American Literature and Social History." Professor J. Lorand…
