Sowande M. Mustakeem, in Arts & Sciences, discusses her seminar “Medicine, Healing and Experimentation in the Contours of Black History” and the importance of grappling with traumatic history.
Jean Allman is AFAS's newly elected member of the American Academic of Arts & Sciences! She is the third AFAS faculty to join this prestigious honorary society, the others being Gerald Early and John Baugh.
The WU-CRRJ Action Research Lab led by Professors Cunningham and Ward will engage WashU undergraduate and graduate students in field research needed to investigate racially-motivated homicides in Missouri (1930-1954) in support of case investigations and restorative justice efforts led by teams of law faculty and students in the award-winning Civil Rights and Restorative Justice (CRRJ) Clinic at Northeastern University Law School.
WashU’s osteology collection still contains specimens from nearly 1800 individuals from St. Louis and wider Missouri, many of them African Americans, who probably never consented to being collected for use in research and teaching.
In the research and film project, “Mississippi Mud: Visibility for Black Women’s Stories in Rural Mississippi,” AFAS major Leandrea Clay uses oral histories, archival materials, photographs, and other sources to share the stories of three generations of women in her hometown of Centreville, Mississippi.
As a previous member of the University’s Student Union (SU), Truong served as both Speaker of the Senate and as Student Body President. With a double major in African American Studies and Political Science, Truong currently works as Policy Director at the Urban League Of Louisiana, and is set to transition to Bogalusa City Hall in January of next year.
"A tug of war over disrupting or conserving social arrangements has long buffeted schools." Dr. Michelle Purdy writes for the Washington Post Made by History series, a special series on academic freedom sponsored by PEN America.
Wilmetta Toliver-Diallo, Assistant Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences and Senior Lecturer in African and African-American Studies, is recognized by the United Way for nearly a decade of volunteering and advocating for youth in foster care.
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.
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.
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).
In 2020 Professor Mutonya received international recognition for his use of sociolinguistic methods that focus on the interests of marginalized speech communities.
This interdisciplinary project involves graduate training and research focusing on the intersections of language, migration, urban settlement, and identity construction within enclaves of African immigrants residing in Nairobi.
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.
The Dred Scott Heritage Foundation has named AFAS and History Professor Sowande' Mustakeem the recipient of its 2020 Dred Scott Freedom Award for her multiple award winning book Slavery at Sea.
Impressed by the clear draw his Summer course had for students, the University College Summer School program has chosen to feature the Department of African & African-American Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, Zachary Manditch-Prottas and his course "James Baldwin: Life, Letter, Legacy" for their Faculty Spotlight.
Professor Rafia Zafar is collaborating with the St. Louis Metro Market "Food Bus" and other partners to develop a Community Cookbook Project with support from The Luminary's Futures-Fund grant program.