Congratulations to Assistant Professor Casey Lurtz who was awarded a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)! NEH Summer Stipends for scholars will support and enable archival […]
Lurtz awarded NEH Summer Stipend
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Graduate Student wins 2022 Smithsonian Award for Excellence in Exhibitions
Congratulations to Dominique Hazzard, the junior curator of “Food for the People: Eating and Activism in Greater Washington” at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum (Senior Curator, Dr. Samir Meghelli). Dominique Hazzard […]
Biden’s push for an infrastructure presidency risks sacrificing Black communities
Infrastructure has a long history of cloaking racism and preventing justice, writes JHU historian N.D.B. Connolly in The Washington Post.
Launching of the special issue of Brésil(s) on John Russell-Wood
Roundtable celebrates the publication of a special Issue of the journal Bresil(s) honoring the life of our colleague, the late John Russell Wood, and edited by current colleagues Erin Rowe and Jean […]
Spring 2022 @ LifexCode (Calendar of Events)
Come one, come all! Image caption: New Orleans, May 1961. Langston Hughes Papers. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. […]
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $2 million grant to the Digital Solidarities Lab co-led by Jessica Marie Johnson
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $2 million grant to the Digital Solidarities Lab (DSL) co-led by Jessica Marie Johnson. This multi-institutional Black feminist digital humanities partnership will include […]
New York Times, “We Still Can’t See American Slavery for What It Was”
Assistant professor Jessica Johnson and Jennie Williams, a recent History PhD alumna and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz, were quoted in the New York Times […]
Professor Meyer-Fong interviewed for BBC documentary “The World According to Search”
Professor Tobie Meyer-Fong was recently interviewed about the Chinese historical fantasy drama Yanxi Palace for a BBC documentary called “The World According to Search.” Episode Synopsis:What can we learn about […]
Angus Burgin on NPR’s Throughline
Associate Professor Angus Burgin was recently interviewed for NPR’s show Throughline on an episode called, “Capitalism: What Makes Us Free?” About the episode: What’s the role of government in society? […]
Anna Roberts awarded the 2021 Butler Prize
Anna receives the Butler Prize for her essay ” ‘The Cravings of a Sensual Nose’: Snuff, Gender, and Sexuality in Britain, 1660-1820.” Roberts’ study of snuff, gender, and sexuality in […]