Allie Martin, Assistant Professor of Music and Associated Faculty in African and African American Studies is a co-recipient of the 2026 BFE Book Prize for her monograph Intersectional Listening: Gentrification and Black Sonic Life in Washington, DC. The BFE Book Prize is a biennial prize that recognizes outstanding scholarship in ethnomusicology for a monograph or edited collection written in English. 

Matthew Delmont, Frank J. Guarini Associate Dean of International Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies and the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History, and Kimberly Juanita Brown, Director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life and Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, have had their open-access publications recognized as finalists by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). 

Both were finalists in the category of multimodal works: Delmont for his project  Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African American Newspapers and Brown for her project Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual. 

Projects are  selected by distinguished panels of scholars, librarians, digital humanities experts, and accessibility specialists. Supported by Arcadia, these prizes recognize and reward the authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative, and open humanities books published from 2019 to 2024.

Professor Trica Keaton, Evans Family Distinguished Professor, has been selected as a winner of the 2026-27 Neukom Insitute CompX Faculty Grant for her project "Black Paris Narrative" along with colleague John Bell.  

The Black Paris app leverages AI and locative technologies to enhance International Study Abroad (ISA) learning experiences. Combining Niantic's augmented reality platform with an on-device large language model, the mobile application uses GPS data and AI-driven visual analysis of student-captured photos to identify historically significant sites in real time. 

The platform then introduces a novel "time-shifted" learning model, delivering curated cultural and historical content after site visits through delayed push notifications and Socratic-style AI chatbot conversations. 

This approach encourages reflection and deeper engagement beyond the immediacy of the physical experience.Piloted during the Black Paris ISA program in summer 2027 with 20 undergraduate students, the project evaluates how AI-mediated, location-aware technologies can surface overlooked heritage narratives and meaningfully deepen student engagement.

A highly competitive grant program, the Grants Program  is designed to support both the development of novel computational techniques and the application of computational methods to research initiatives across Dartmouth's campus and professional schools. Read more about the program and its list of 2026-27 recipients. 

Jesse Weaver Shipley, John D. Willard Professor of African and African American Studies and Oratory will offer the talk "Routes of Rebellion: The Aesthetics of Revolution" as an invited research seminar in the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University. The talk explores how sonic and embodied aesthetics shape political power.