AAAS will offer a foreign study program in Paris, France entitled "Afro/Black Paris" in Summer 2018. The FSP is focused on the historical, cultural, and social significance of African descended people in this region of the African Diaspora. Applications will be due February 1, 2018.

Professor Rashauna Johnson's new book Slavery's Metropolis (Cambridge, 2016) has been named a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize . Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, the Frederick Douglass Book Prize recognizes the best book on slavery, resistance, and/or abolition published in the preceding year....

Playwright Mohammed Ben Abdallah will be in residence at Dartmouth College from 2 to 13 July 2017. He will be visiting classes and meeting with faculty and students.

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....