Professor Chude-Sokei Honored as 2025 Guggenheim Fellow!
Our very own Director of AABDS and professor of English, Louis Chude-Sokei, has been awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2025! Professor Chude-Sokei joins the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows alongside 198 Trailblazing Artists and scholars across 53 fields.
Faculty Spotlight Interview: Chad Williams
Tomorrow Foundation Professor of History and African American Studies and 黑人散居澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究 Chad Williams is an expert on W. E. B. Du Bois, African American history, and World War I. He is currently working on two book projects, an exploration of the meaning and significance of Black Studies, and a history of the intellectual […]
Ron Richardson Book Launch
This Thursday, October 3rd, the History Department and the African American and 黑人散居澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究 program are co-sponsoring a book launch forum for Professor Ron Richardson. This will be a conversation between Professor Richardson and Yuichiro Onishi from the University of Minnesota as they explore the Afro-Asian struggles against global white supremacy from the 19th century […]
Upcoming Afro-Cuban Music Workshop led by Sandy Pérez
The Saturday Afro-Cuban music workshops with Maestro Sandy Pérez will be continuing in the fall. He will hold intermediate and beginner workshops on September 7th and October 19th, at our usual location in Lynn. (Click the links to register). The workshops provide an opportunity to learn with one of the most knowledgeable Cuban musicians of his generation for a […]
Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei has been invited to participate in the 15th Annual Gwangju Biennale in South Korea
Our very own Dr. Louis Chude-Sokei has been invited to participate in the 15th Annual Gwangju Biennale, the largest art event in Asia. This year’s event is entitled Pansori: A Soundscape of the 21st Century, after a Korean genre here used to explore globalization, technology, and climate change by way of our relationships between sound and […]
Dr. Koritha Mitchell featured in Time Magazine
Koritha Mitchell, Professor of English and African American Literature recently published an article in TIME. “I’ve been encouraged to see affinity groups organize in support of the Harris campaign, but I know how easily Americans can turn that into something ugly. I therefore wrote this piece for TIME that I hope you’ll find useful and worth […]
AFAM Studies 2024 Convocation
Congratulations to the African American and 黑人散居澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究 graduate and undergraduate students of 2024!
Now Hiring! Fall Student Employment Opportunities at the Howard Thurman Center
Announcement from Danielle DeCourcey, the marketing and communications assistant director at BU’s Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground. If you’re not familiar with the HTC, our mission is to create experiences and spaces that build community and encourage self-exploration between people of different backgrounds and identities. We currently have open graduate-level positions for events, programs, […]
Upcoming Afro-Cuban Music Workshop and festival rehearsal led by Sandy Perez
The next Afro-Cuban music workshop will be held Saturday June 8th (details below). Among other things we will be rehearsing to perform a comparsa at the Lynn Music Festival on June 22nd at 5:20pm. The Saturday Afro-Cuban music workshop series led by the renowned Cuban master drummer Sandy Perez and sponsored by the Lynn Music […]
Saida Grundy wins 2024 Race, Gender, and Class Book Award
Saida Grundy’s book Respectable: Politics and Paradox in Making the Morehouse Man (University of California Press, 2022) recently won the ASA’s 2024 Race, Gender, and Class Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award. The award recognizes a scholar who “has made a significant contribution to the development of the integrative field of race, gender, and class through […]