Professor Rashauna Johnson has been awarded the 2016 Williams Prize for her book Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions....

Professor Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch receives a fellowship that will support her book project on Ghanaians' roles in global politics.

Professor Robert Baum is writing the first continent-wide history of African religion, with a focus on indigenous religions.

AAAS Professor Jesse Weaver Shipley presents a paper at Goldsmiths, University of London: "The Aesthetics of Politics: A Practical Guide to Coups d'Etats."...

On November 3rd, the first annual forum at Dartmouth for considering the study of Africa in global terms was convened by Professors Naaborko Sackeyfio-Lenoch and Jesse Shipley.

Two female world-boxing champs, focus of Professor Jesse Shipley's film-in-the-works, visited his classes recently....

Pamela Joyner ('79) draws attention to abstract art by African American and other artists from the African diaspora.

AAAS welcomes professors Trica Keaton and Jesse Shipley, Research Associate Vaughn Booker, and Marshall Fellow Tanya Jones.

AAAS professor Reena Goldthree talks with NHPR about the Black Lives Matter movement and the recent violence in Louisiana, Minnesota, and Texas.