Raven Maragh-Lloyd’s research demonstrates the role that Black humor plays in creating digital spaces for critiquing racism.
Arts & Sciences junior Nkemjika Emenike talks with Geoff K. Ward about the ways that Washington University and the broader St. Louis region are implicated in the history of slavery.
This article was written in tandem with a 10-month-long research project by students (including c/o '23 AFAS major Detric Henderson) under the guidance of Professor Iver Bernstein and Professor Carl Craver, with the end goal being that this research would support a new first-year Ampersand course entitled, “Rethinking WashU’s Relation to Enslavement: Past, Present, and Future.”
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS, Departments of Education & African and African-American Studies – Tenured Associate Professor or Full Professor in Education Policy
In an effort to advance research and policy addressing legacies of racial violence, three Washington University faculty members — David Cunningham, Hedwig Lee and Geoff Ward — have co-edited a special issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
This special issue of African American Review remembers, recharges, and reimagines the legacy of Afro-Borinqueño visionary Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.
In this interview with JCMS Professor Maragh-Lloyd discusses the nuances of race, resistance, and technology.
The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is a competitive and intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for American university students to study one of fifteen critical languages.
Professor Rafia Zafar guest edits the African American Review's special issue featuring Arturo Schomburg.
Several AFAS faculty are helping to lead Washington University's participation in Universities Studying Slavery, a global consortium of nearly eighty universities across five countries engaged in examining how their institutional histories are entangled with histories and legacies of slavery. The project, WashU & Slavery, is based in the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2).
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