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Associate Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas presented a co-authored paper titled "Grounding 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa': Walter Rodney and the rupture in Guyana" at a workshop held at Columbia University on March 10 to 11.

Dean of Faculty Suzanne Keen recognized 14 faculty members with Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards in three categories at the May 3 faculty meeting.

Associate Professor of Government Erica De Bruin co-authored an op-ed titled “How this wave of African coups differs from previous ones” in The Washington Post on Feb. 25. Her essay explained how military leaders are likely to turn to elections to maintain power.

A chapter by A. Todd Franklin, professor of philosophy and Africana studies, is included in the new book Black Men from Behind the Veil: Ontological Interrogations edited by George Yancy (Lexington Books, 2021).

In observation of Black History Month, Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill shared this perspective about the course “Racism and Anti-racism” and the students who took it.

Professor of Africana Studies Heather Merrill gave a lecture titled “Being Italian: The Peculiar Journey of Blackness” to an international audience of students and faculty connected with the School or Architecture at Syracuse University, Florence on Sept. 9.

A chapter by Associate Professor of Africana Studies Nigel Westmaas is included in the new book The Red and The Black: The Russian Revolution and The Black Atlantic edited by David Featherstone & Christian Hogsberg (Manchester University Press, 2021).

Shelley Haley, the Edward North Chair of Greek and Greek Literature and Professor of Classics and Africana Studies, recently presented the seventh annual Adam Parry and Anne Amory Parry Lecture at Yale University.