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Derrick R. Spires Named 2026 Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-in-Residence

January 9, 2026

Spires, a specialist in early Black print culture, citizenship studies, and African American intellectual history, is an associate professor of English at the University of...

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Derrick R. Spires Named 2026 Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-in-Residence

January 9, 2026

Spires, a specialist in early Black print culture, citizenship studies, and African American intellectual history, is an associate professor of English at the University of...

Prof. Erica L. Ball Elected to Membership in American Antiquarian Society

February 14, 2025

The ��app professor of Black Studies joins a 212-year-old national research library and community of learners dedicated to discovering and sharing a deeper...

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Deirdre Cooper Owens Named 2025 Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-in-Residence

January 24, 2025

Cooper Owens, a historian, teacher, and reproductive justice advocate, is an associate professor of history and Africana studies at the University of Connecticut.

Monica M. White Named 2024 Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-in-Residence

February 13, 2024

White, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, is the Distinguished Chair of Integrated Environmental Studies and associate professor of environmental justice at the University of Wisconsin...

Ashon Crawley Named 2023 Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-in-Residence

February 3, 2023

Crawley is a scholar, artist, and associate professor of religious studies and African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia.

Foreman To Speak on the Forgotten History of 19th-Century Black Activism

November 4, 2022

Literary historian, digital humanist and 2022 MacArthur Fellow P. Gabrielle Foreman will speak on "Why Didn’t We Know?!: The Forgotten History of the Colored Conventions and 19th...