The Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts at Johns Hopkins sponsored several major events this spring. These included “Rent Party: African American Urban Dance Music from Ragtime to House” featuring the […]
Spring BHCLA Events
News & Announcements Archive
Newby awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship
Congratulations to Jessica Newby for receiving a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship (DIF) to support her project, Kinship in Motion: Women & Slavery in 18th Century Rural Jamaica!!! Jessica is one […]
Opening of exhibit “‘Revolution in our Lifetime’: The Black Panther Party and Political Organizing in Baltimore, 1968-1974”
Congratulations to Victoria Harms and Stuart Schrader on the record-setting opening of their exhibition “‘Revolution in Our Lifetime’: The Black Panther Party and Political Organizing in Baltimore, 1968-1974″ at the […]
Undergraduates Gallito and St. Clair Publish in the Vanderbilt Historical Review
Congratulations to history majors Hilary Gallito and Contessa St. Clair were who recently published in Issue VIII, the Fall 2023-Spring 2024 issue, of the Vanderbilt Historical Review! Their articles:“The “Poet’s […]
Who Owns Black Data Conference
The Who Owns Black Data conference, held on March 28-29, 2024, by the Black Beyond Data Ecosystem at Johns Hopkins and Morgan State Universities, was a historic convening will gather […]
Stulman Reception with Ann Laura Stoler
On March 28th, the History Department welcomed Ann Laura Stoler, the Willy Brandt Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research, to present the […]
Esteemed Black Studies scholar Shani Mott dies at 47
Shani Tahir Mott, lecturer in the Center for Africana Studies and Department of History at Johns Hopkins University, died of cancer on March 12, four days before her 48th birthday.
Renowned historian Richard A. Goldthwaite dies at 90
Richard A. Goldthwaite, a renowned historian specializing in the economic and social history of Renaissance Florence, died March 4 in Italy at the age of 90.
Hyman named Dorothy Ross Professor of Political Economy in History
The department celebrated the installation of Louis R. Hyman as the inaugural Dorothy Ross Professor of Political Economy in History with a lunch on February 22. Professors Ross and Hyman […]
Prof. Louis Hyman and Dr. Sam Backer awarded AI-Informed Discovery and Inquiry Seed Grant
Congratulations to Prof. Louis Hyman and alumnus Dr. Sam Backer–and their co-PI Jeremy Alan Greene–for being among the winners of the inaugural AI-informed discovery and inquiry seed grant competition from […]