Founded and directed by Associate Professor of Theater Dr. Monica White Ndounou, the Craft Institute is one of four institutions selected by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to administer a newly-awarded $5 million grant to support Black theaters across the United States.
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October 05, 2020
The African and African American Studies Program will celebrate its 50th anniversary by hosting a roundtable with AAAS alumni and current students. Thursday, October 15, at 6 p.m.
September 10, 2020
Joshua Bennett, poet, performer, and scholar is a Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing and AAAS Affiliate. Bennett's latest book, "Owed," has received extensive accolades recognizing Bennett as "one of the most impressive voices in poetry today..."
September 02, 2020
Joshua Bennett, Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing, AAAS Affiliate, and prize-winning poet, argues in his first book of literary criticism that blackness acts as the caesura between human and nonhuman, man and animal.
August 25, 2020
Vaughn Booker, Assistant Professor of Religion and African and African American Studies has new article published in "Religion and American Culture." Booker examines comedian Richard Claxton "Dick" Gregory's comical articulation of religious belief and belonging.
August 06, 2020
Professor Chelsey Kivland's recent book challenges conventional understandings of sovereignty and popular politics in Haiti.
July 16, 2020
The Dartmouth community, and the theater world at large, have lost a gifted and courageous leader. Lorna C. Hill '73, actress, playwright...
July 14, 2020
Matthew Delmont, the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History, has been named special advisor to President Philip J. Hanlon '77...
July 13, 2020
Dr. Shamell Bell is featured on Jacob's Pillow Talk presenting street dance activism, creating community health, and envisioning the future. Bell highlights "joy as a radical act" to build awareness and inspire change.
July 13, 2020
Chochotte's article, "The Twilight of Popular Revolutions: The Suppression of Peasant Armed Struggles and Freedom in Rural Haiti during the US Occupation, 1915-1934," published in The Journal of African American History was praised for contributing to a new portrayal of Haiti.