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Read About Susan Reverby's Shocking Discovery of U.S. Syphilis Experiments in Guatemala:
Associated Press
BBC (with video interview)
Boston Globe
CNN
NPR: All Things Considered
NPR Health Blog: Shots
New York Times
PBS Newshour
USA Today
WBUR (radio interview) 

Bioethics Forum Blog by Susan: After the Media Frenzy, Preventing Another `Guatemala’
Susan Reverby's Homepage (with article)

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Party

New Book by Deborah Willlis

Glenda Carpio - in the news

Our Distinguished Alumni:

Ambassador to Nigeria Walter Carrington Columbia University Provost Claude Steele Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka
Walter Carrington                      Claude Steele                          Wole Soyina

 

YEAR FELLOWS PROJECT TITLE
 
2010-2011    
  Getting out the Image of the Black in Western Art
  Trading in Sorrow: Racialized Feeling and Transatlantic Black Performance
  Ornamental Blackness: The Black Body in European Decorative Arts 1700-1900
  In the Arms of the Negress: A Brief History of Modern Artistic Practice
  Land, Design, and Responsibility in the African Atlantic World
  "A World of Their Own": African Women’s Schooling and the Politics of Social Reproduction in South Africa, 1869 to Recent Times
  Africanizing the South African Higher Education Curriculum: A Social Realist Approach
  Deconstructing the Beggar’s Edifice: the Failure of Civil Rights and the Battle for Place in Hiphop America
  Which Way Does the Blood River Run? Julian Mayfield and the Politics of Oblivion
  Everyday Struggles: Research Praxis, Politics and the Production of Urban Knowledge
  Africa’s Regions as Spaces for Environmental Politics
  Blacks and Asians, Encounters Through Time and Space
  Issues of Knowledge and Curriculum in Higher Education
  The Movement in A Life: Memories of Racial Justice Battles in the Forties and Fifties
  The Scale of World Literature: Strategies of Contextualization in the African Novel and Beyond
  The Myth of a Black History
  Staging the Unspeakable: Cultural Trauma in African American Theatre & Performance
  Integrating the Dual State: Democracy, Race and Violence
  Black Patriots in the American Revolutionary War from RI: The History of Over Seven Hundred Men, Using the Microsoft Access Database System and Primary Documents
2009-2010    
  Patricia A. Banks Represent: Art and Identity Among the Black Upper-Middle Class
  Celeste-Marie Bernier Slave Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination
  David Bindman Getting out the Image of the Black in Western Art
  Floretta Boonzaier Psychology, relevance and gender-based violence in South Africa
  Corrie Claiborne What I Learned from White Girls: Reflections on Black Identity and Integration
  Zimitri Erasmus Crimes of ‘Blood’: A comparative analysis of South Africa’s Immorality Act (1927 & 1950) and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949), and Miscegenation Laws in North America
  Lyndon K. Gill Transfiguring Trinidad and Tobago: queer cultural production, erotic subjectivity and a new postcolonialism
  Zerisenay Habtezion Legal and Policy Challenges in the Deployment and Application of “Soft” Adaptation Technologies
  Adam Haupt Mediating Youth Culture: Race, Gender, and Counterculture in Post-Apartheid South Africa
  Linda Heywood Queen Njinga a Mbandi: History, Gender, Memory and Nation in Angola and Brazil
  Paulin Hountondji Constructing the Universal: a trans-cultural Challenge
  Joseph L. Jones The Institutional Black Messiah: W.E.B. Du Bois’ Political Philosophy of Education for Black Institutions of Higher Education
  Sylvie Laurent White Like She, Cross-Over Narratives of Doubling: Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison, A Comparative Study
  Cameron Leader-Picone Rinehartism: Representations of Blackness in Contemporary African American Literature
  Joanna Lipper A Girl From Zanzibar
  Dominique Malaquais Barnburner: Soul of a Fight
  Reuben A. Buford May Race, Culture, Class and Urban Social Space
  Ronald K. Richardson Blacks and Asians, Encounters Through Time and Space
  Barbara Rodríguez Representations of Slavery: Texas, Mexico, and Race in the 1830s and 1840s
  C. Riley Snorton Trapped in the [Epistemological] Closet: Black Sexuality and the Popular Imagination
  Jason Sokol The Northern Mystique: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn, 1939-present
  Deborah Willis Posing Beauty
2008-2009    
  Erin Royston Battat ‘Ain’t Got No Home’: Race and American Migration Narratives in the Depression Era
  David Bindman Getting out the Image of the Black in Western Art
  Anna-Lisa Cox Founding Freedom: The Antebellum Free Black Diaspora and the Creation of Communities of Equality on the American Frontier
  Vagner Gonçalves da Silva Afro-Brazilian Religions and National Culture – An Ethnography in Hypermedia
  Abdoulaye Gueye The Black Movement in Contemporary France
  Andrew Kahrl Race, Class, and the Law along America's Coastlines, 1945 to the Present
  Paul Kaplan European Images of Black Africans, 500-1700
  Hope Lewis Black without Borders: Transnational Migration, Human Rights, and Race in the United States
  Joanna Lipper A Girl From Zanzibar
  David Luis-Brown Blazing at Midnight: Slave Rebellion and Social Identity in U.S. and Cuban Culture
  Mbulungeni Madiba Multilingualism Education Project
  Jennifer Nash The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography
  David Olugbenga Ogungbile Divine Manifestation and Human Creativity: Cultural Hermeneutics of Myth, Ritual and Identity of Osogbo-Yoruba People of Nigeria
  Barbara Rodríguez Representations of Slavery: Texas, Mexico, and Race in the 1830s and 1840s
  Epifanio San Juan, Jr. The African American Community and US/Filipino Relations 1898 to Present
  J. Mira Seo The Complete Works of Juan Latino, the First Black Poet, Translated and Edited with Literary and Historical Notes
  Faith Smith Whose Modern? Caribbean Cultural and Intellectual Formation, 1880-1915
  Jeremy Wanderer Social Power and the Giving and Asking for Reasons
2007-2008    
  Mia L. Bagneris  “Local Colors: Interracial Sexuality and the Mixed-Race Body in the Caribbean Canvases of Agostino Brunias”
  Allison Blakely “The Emergence of Afro-Europe”
  Mathias Bös “Race and Ethnicity – The History of Two Concepts in American Sociology”
  Glenda R. Carpio “Black Narrative and Poetry from Latin America
  Kimberly McClain DaCosta “Black Magic: African American Advertisers and the Production of Social Identity”
  Allyson Nadia Field “Filming Back and Black: Strategies of African American Political Modernism”
  Gertrude M. James González de Allen “Sediments and Interceptions: Reflections on Encounter and the Development of Transnational Identities in the U.S. Virgin Islands
  Sharon Harley “Dignity and Damnation: Black Women Negotiating Freedom and Patriarchy in the Post-Emancipation United States
  Linda Heywood “Queen Njinga a Mbandi: History, Gender, Memory and Nation in Angola and Brazil
  Karla FC Holloway  “Private Bodies/Public Texts: Bioethics and Literature”
  Carla Kaplan “Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance”
  Paul H. D. Kaplan “Italian Images of Black Africans, c. 1490-c. 1700”
  Gretchen Long “Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care, 1840-1910”
  Maxim Matusevich “An Exotic Subversive: Africa, Africans, and ‘Africanness’ in Soviet Popular Culture and Imagination”
  Hudita Nura Mustafa “Practicing Beauty: Gender, Urbanism and Cultural Creativity in Contemporary Dakar
  David Olugbenga Ogungbile “Divine Manifestation and Human Creativity: Cultural Hermeneutics of Myth, Ritual and Identity of Osogbo-Yoruba People of Nigeria
  Samuel Raditlhalo “Unsung Hero: The Life of Hamilton Mshado Naki”
  Barbara Rodríguez “Representations of Slavery: Texas, Mexico, and Race in the 1830s and 1840s”
  J. Mira Seo “The Complete Works of Juan Latino, the First Black Poet, Translated and Edited with Literary and Historical Notes”
  Charlotte Szilágyi “Framed! The ‘Other’ Subject in Jewish-American, African American, and German Fiction and the Narrative War for Direct Discourse”
 2006-2007    
  Guillaume Aubert “The Blood of France”: Constructing Race and Nation in the French Atlantic World, 1600-1802
  Chukwuma Azuonye “Christopher Okigbo at Work: A Study of His Previously Unpublished Works”
  David Bindman “The Image of the Black in Western Art: Volume 3”
  Jeffrey Ferguson Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance
  Patricia Hills “Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence”
  Chisato Hotta “Racism and the Minority Experience: Koreans in Osaka and African Americans in Chicago, 1920-1945”
  Gretchen Long “Doctoring Freedom: The Politics of African American Medical Care, 1840-1910”
  C.S. Manegold “Ten Hills Farm: America on 600 Acres”
  Hudita Mustafa “Practicing Beauty: Gender, Urbanism and Cultural Creativity in Contemporary Dakar”
  Tudor Parfitt “U.S. Jewish and African Diasporas: An Exploration of Genetic Studies on Ethnicity”
  Susan M. Reverby “Testifying on Tuskegee: Telling and Retelling the Stories of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study”
  Barbara Rodriguez “The American Slave Narrative: Slavery and the Persistence of Form”
  Jean-Paul Rocchi “The Intimacy of Madness and the Madness of Intimacy in Contemporary African American and Diasporic Queer Literature”
  Patricia Sullivan “Struggle toward Freedom: A History of the NAACP”
  Felix Ulombe “Revisiting Gender Issues: Central African Women Victims Between African And Christian Traditions”
2005-2006    
  Bobby Donaldson New Negroes in the New South: Race, Power, and Ideology in Georgia, 1890-1925
  Stanley Engerman Social and Economic Progress of Black America
  Roquinaldo A. Ferreira Slaving, Trade, and Creolization in the Black Atlantic: Angola and Brazil, 1650-1800
  Maria Frias African Nuns in Europe: From Slavery to the Convent
  Arlette Frund Literature and Identity
  Harry Garuba The Postcolonial Muse: Language, Identity and the Emergence of African Literature
  Lesley J. F. Green Tradition, Environment, Science: The Contribution of the Humanities to the Study of Space and Time in Indigenous Knowledge Systems
  James A. Hefner The Black College in the Making of America
  Hudita Nura Mustafa Practicing Beauty: Gender, Urbanism and Cultural Creativity in Contemporary Dakar
  James McCann African Natures: Food and the Natural World
  Samuel Ngayihembako Fundamentalist Churches and the Pastoral Ministry of Women
  Benjamin Adisa Ogunfolakan Patterns of Place: Settlement Strategies, Ceramic Use and Factors of Change among the Early Yoruba (Nigeria)
  Melina Pappademos Alchemists of a Race: Black Cuban Cultural, Political, and Social Clubs, 1902-1959
  Claudine Raynaud Pondering Color or the Racial Subject
  Ronald Kent Richardson Hugo Darodius, Blacks and Asians: Encounters Through Time and Space, and Democracy in America and the World
  Jean-Paul Rocchi The Intimacy of Madness and the Madness of Intimacy in Contemporary African American and Diasporic Queer Literature
  Barbara Rodriguez The American Slave Narrative: Slavery and the Persistence of Form
  Phyllis Taoua The Dynamics of Dispossession: Reflections on Contemporary African Film and Fiction
  Noel Twagiramungu Gacaca: Towards a Tradition-Based Response to an International Modern Crime?
  Wole Soyinka Playwright, Poet, Novelist, and Essayist
 
2004-2005 Dionne Bennett The Emotional Politics of Difference: Race  (re)Cognition and Resistance in African American Life History Narratives
  Ira Berlin Passages: Movement and Place in African American Life from the Mid-Seventeenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century
  Vincent A. Carretta Olaudah Equiano, the African: A Self-Made Man
  Prudence Cumberbatch Working for the Race: The Transformation of the Civil Rights Struggle in Baltimore, 1929-1945
  Derek Hyra The New World A-Coming: The Economic Transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville
  Anthonia Kalu Language, Woman, and Story: African Literature and Social Transformation
  Marisa Parham Things Pungent and Composite: Memory, Space, and Haunting in Modern African American Literature and Culture
  Lorraine Roses Black Boston's Cultural Flowering, 1920-1940
  David Schalkwyk Service and Love in Shakespeare's Poems and Plays
  Wole Soyinka Tradition and Vectors of Language
  Jeffrey Stewart Beauty Instead of Ashes, the Life of Alain Locke, Patron Saint of the Harlem Renaissance
  Ermien van Pletzen Reading, Diversity, and the Curriculum: MBCHB Reading Curriculum at the University of Cape Town
     
2003-2004 Wallace Best Passionately Human, No Less Divine: Religion and Culture in Black Chicago, 1915-1952
  Regine O. Jackson No Longer Visible: Haitian Immigrants in the 'New Boston
  David Kim Negroes and Orientals: The Black Pacific and the American Century
  Robert Korstad The Political Economy of White Supremacy
  Hamieda Parker Facilitating Entrepreneurship amongst Disadvantaged Communities
  June Pym Deep Level Learning and the Pertinent Issues That Impact on Learning for Previously Disadvantaged Students at the University of Cape Town
  Ato Quayson Representations of Physical Disability in African and African American Writing
  Ronald Radano Rhythm Circuits: The Global Transmission of Black Music
  Christopher Saunders Comparisons and Links Between Freedom Struggles in South Africa and the United States
  Nick Shepherd Archeology and Post-Colonialism
  Follarin Shyllon Biography of Edward Long, 18th Century Jamaica Planter
  Claude Steele Contingencies of Social Identity - Their Unseen Effects on Human Performance and the Quality of Life in a Diverse Society
  Dorothy M. Steele Reflections on the Stanford Integrated School Project
  Rebeccah Welch Black Art and Activism in Postwar New York
 
2002-2003 Marcellus Blount Listening for My Name: African American Men and the Politics of Intimacy 
  Roy Bryce-Laporte Sociological Studies and Implications of Black Experiences
  Frances Smith Foster  Afro-Protestant Interpretations of Marriage, Family and Sex
  Malick Walid Ghachem The Colonial Terror: Haitian Variations on a Metropolitan Theme
  Cassandra Jackson Between Us': Mulatto Figures in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
  Teodoros Kiros Zara Yacob on the Rationality of the Heart
  Bernth Lindfors Ira Aldridge's Theatrical Career in Europe: 1852-1867
  Glenn Loury Colorblind Affirmative Action: The Costs of Transparency
  Mesfin Wolde-Mariam Ethiopian Famine and Human Rights 
  Ezenwa Ohaeto Wole Soyinka and the Transcultural Biography
  Cherise Smith Adrian Piper, Eleanor Antin, and Anna Deveare Smith: Ethnic, Gender, and Racial Performance
  Ryan Smith Color-tocracy at Work: Racial and Ethnic Authority Hierarchies in Organizations
  Ibrahim Sundiata Brothers and Strangers: African Americans, Africans and the Specter of Slavery, 1914-1940
  Mark R. Warren White Americans Against Racism
  Nan Yeld Using Assessment to Widen Access for Educationally Disadvantaged Students
 
2001-2002 Joan Bryant Reluctant Race Men: American Resistance to the Idea of Race
  John Conteh-Morgan Cultural Performance and the Search for Form in Black Atlantic Theater
  Barrington Edwards W. E. B. Du Bois, Empirical Social Research and the Challenge to Race, 1868-1910
  Stephen Hall To Give a Faithful Account of the Race: History and Historical Writing in the African American Community, 1817-1915
  Coleman Jordan Scripting the Legacies of the Black Atlantic: Spaces of Oppression and Liberation
  Janis Kearney William Jefferson Clinton and the African American Community: The Ties that Bind
  Tyson D. King-Meadows From Footnote to Main Text: W. E. B. Du Bois, Franz Boas, and Anthropological Notions of Race
  Anthea Kraut Staging the Vernacular, Choreographing Race: The Dance Performances of Josephine Baker, Zora Neale Hurston, and Katherine Dunham
  Emmanuel Obiechina Slavery and the Fall of Africa: Textualizing a Historic Tragedy
  Terri Oliver Disease, Disability, and Death: An American Rhetoric of Minority
  Naomi Pabst Freedom Tropes and Representation Struggles: A Politics of Blackness
  Barbara Rodriguez The American Slave Narrative: Slavery and the Persistence of Form
  Fikeni E.M.K. Senkoro Transcription, Translation, Analysis and Writing of a Full Length Bilingual Anthology of Folktales from Zanzibar
  Mason Stokes Straight, No Chaser: Harlem, Heterosexuality, and the 1920s
  Aaronette White About Face: Turning Points in the Lives of Black Men Who Support Feminism
  Stephanie Williams Searching for a Place in the American Art Museum:  A Study of Middle Class Black Americans
     
2000-2001 Muhammad Saalih Allie Physics Education
  Anne C. Bailey Oral History of the Atlantic Slave Trade
  Cathy J. Cohen Evolution of Black Civil Society in Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia
  Janis F. Kearney President Clinton's Historic African Visit (March 22-April 2, 1997)
  Chirevo V. Kwenda The African Theory of Religion
  Lesley Marx Dispossession, Reclamation and the Sense of Place
  Simon Mawondo Truth, Reconciliation and Justice: The Search for Peace
  Ezenwa Ohaeto The Biography, African Perspective, African Knowledge:  Wole Soyinka
  Naomi Pabst Freedom Tropes and Representation Struggles:  A Politics of Blackness
  Augusta Rohrbach Nineteenth Century Women Writers: A Study of Authorship
  Fikeni E.M.K. Senkoro Transcription, Translation, Analysis and Writing of a Full Length Bilingual Anthology of Folktales from Zanzibar
 
1999-2000 Mia Elisabeth Bay A Cultural History of Afrocentrism
  Emily E. Bernard Black Anxiety, White Influence: Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance
  Richard K. Dozier Encyclopedia and Research Guide to African American Architects and Architecture
  Kathleen Morgan Drowne Legislating Morality: Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Literature of Prohibition, 1920-1933
  Marilene S. Phipps Living Altars of Haiti
  Barbara Rodríguez The American Slave Narrative: Slavery and the Persistence of Form
  Carli Coetzee Going Native: The Effect of Africa on Whiteness
  Huda Nura Mustafa Resituating Ethnography: Sartorial Modernities in Senegal
  Shawkat M. Toorawa Unbecoming (?) African, (Re)becoming African: Acknowledgment and Disavowal, Construction and De(con)struction of Race and Identity in Mauritius
 
 
1998-1999 Olufemi Akinola Beyond the State-Society Chasm in Africa: Refocusing the Democracy Problematic
  Joanne Braxton Deep River: Multi-Media Performance Anthology
  June Cross Secret Daughter: A Study of Double Consciousness Amidst the Changing Social Mores of Race, Sex, and Identity in the U.S. since 1954
  Laurent Dubois A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in French Caribbean, 1789-1802
  Fabien Eboussi African Philosophizing
  Lawrence Jackson The Life of Ralph Ellison, 1913-1952
  Biodun Jeyifo The Dismemberment of Orisanila-Abibiman: The Black Racial Imaginary in African and the U.S.
  Christine Levecq Philosophies of Literary History in the African American History Novel of Slavery
  Barbara McCaskill William and Ellen Craft in Transatlantic Abolition
  Barbara Rodriquez The American Slave Narrative: Slavery and the Persistence of Form
  Carlo Rotella Postindustrial Transformation, Race, and Culture
  Catherine Tumber The Sound of the Genuine: The Papers of Howard Thurman
 
1997-1998 Katherine L. Balfour The Evidence of Things Not Said: Race Consciousness and Political Theory
  Robert M. Baum Emitai Has Sent Them: Alinesitoue and the History of the Diola Women Prophets in Colonial Senegal
  Ruth Elizabeth Burks Intimations of Invisibility: African American Women in Hollywood Cinema
  Walter C. Carrington Military Rule and the Collapse of the Nigerian State: The Abacha Regime
  Lelia Lomba De Andrade Investigating Identities: Gender, Race and Class in an Ethnic Community
  Flora M. Gonzalez Mulata/Black Woman? Reading Women in Contemporary Cuban Culture
  Modupe Gloria Labode Women, Mission and Representation in Africa
  Ronald Kent Richardson  Africans, Britons, and Modern Identity
  Richard P. Taub  Black, White and Hispanic: Working Class Communities in Chicago
  Maude Southwell Wahlman Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South
 
1996-1997 Wande Abimbola Oral Literature in Africa
  Ronald Bailey Those Valuable People, the Africans: The Slave(ry) Trade, Cotton, and the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain and the United States
  Katherine Balfour The Evidence of Things Not Said: Race Consciousness and Political Theory
  Stephen Behrendt Atlantic Slave Trade Project
  David Blight America's Unmasterable Past: Race and Civil War Memory at the Semi-Centennial, 1911-1915
  Daphne Brooks The Show Must Go On: Race, Gender & Nation in 19th Century Trans-Atlantic Performance Culture
  Tung-jung Chen Toni Morrison's Poetics and African American Culture: Some Observations
  John Gennari Entering the Mainstream: Jazz and Cultural Politics in the 50's
  Cheryl Greenberg Negotiating Coalition: Blacks and Jews in Twentieth Century America
  Nell Irvin Painter Sojourner Truth: The Life of a Symbol
  Anita Patterson Black Ars: Political Forms in Caribbean, African American & South African Poetry, 1965-74
  Carl Pederson The Space In Between: The Middle Passage in the African American Experience
  Guthrie Ramsey Toward a Cultural Poetics of Race Music
  Barbara Rodriguez Visions, Context and Voice in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust Track on a Road
  James Smethurst Ethnic Dreams: The Rise of the 'New American Poetry' and the 'Black Arts Movement'
  Brent Edwards Wandering Forms: The Culture and Politics of Black Modernism in France 1921-1935
  Alessandra Lorini History and Memory in African American Pageantry: W. E.B . Du Bois's The Star of Ethiopia
  Jeffrey Melnick Island of Love? Black and White in Doo Wop Music
  H. Lewis Suggs Chester Franklin and the Kansas City Call , 1919-1954
  Harold Weaver Paul Robeson Revisited 
  Cornel West A Genealogy of the Public Intellectual: Erasmus, Paine, Emerson, Du Bois
  Edward Widmer African Drums & their Repercussions
   
1995-1996 Rebecca Carroll Sugar in the Raw: A Profile of Young Black Girls in America
  Kathleen Neal Cleaver Research Guide to the History of the Black Panther Party 1966-1980
  Catherine Clinton Lift Every Voice: The African American Experience
  Lee A. Daniels Afro-American Studies, 1968 to the Present
  Maria I. Diedrich Onilie Assing & Frederick Douglass
  David Eltis A Comprehensive Data Base of the Slave Trade of the Western Hemisphere
  Robert J. Fowler The Letters of Ira Aldridge
  Maria Frias The History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
  Lisa M. Gates Images of the African and African American in Modern German Literature and Culture
  Roderick Grierson Art and Ethiopian Identity
  Barry Hallen The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful; An Examination of the Value Theory in Yoruba Culture
  Mary Hamer Sculpture and Race in the 19th Century
  Roger R. House Key to the Highway: The Life and Songs of William 'Big Bill' Broonzy, 1893-1958
  Sidney N. Klaus The Science of Skin Color in th Age of Reason
  Robert R. Krueger First Collection of Brazilian Slave Texts: Translation and Analysis of the Principal Works
  Shelly Leanne African American Initiatives against Minority Rule in South Africa: A Politicized Diaspora in World Politics
  Sieglinde D. Lemke Modernism, Primitivism, the Bogue Negro and the Harlem Renaissance
  Alessandra Lorini The Color-line Language of Early American Social Science: Mainstream Paradigms and Oppositional Discourses
  William S. McFeely The Writing of Biography and Autobiography
  Elizabeth A. McHenry Forgotten Readers: African American Literary Societies in the United States, 1830-1940
  Jeffrey Melnick Ethnicity, Modernity, and Modernism
  Jill Netchinsky-Toussant The Writings of Juan Francisco Manzano, Poet, Autobiographer, Slave: Translational Edition
  Adam Z. Newton Literary Blacks and Jews: A Thematics of Recognition
  Stephan Palmie Towards and Historical Sociology of Cultural Complexity in African American Populations
  Susan M. Reverby Creating Nurse Rivers: The Metalanguage of Race and the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
  Gail M. Robinson An Historical Study of Todd Duncan
  John Saillant A Life of Lemeul Haynes: Race, Religion, and Political Ideology in Revolutionary America, and the Early Republic
  Barbara L. Solow Rise and Fall of Plantation Slavery in the West Indies: A Case Study
  Wole Soyinka The Crisis in Nigeria
  Therese H. Steffen Rita Dove's Poetic Network: From Transatlantic Dialogue to Multicultural Polylogue
  Patricia A. Sullivan Encyclopedia of the Southern Civil Rights movement, 1865-1965
  Constance Porter Uzelac The Correspondence of James A. Porter
  Eleonore van Notten Letters from the Harlem Renaissance
  Michael Vorenberg Final Freedom: The 13th Amendment in History and Memory
  Sondra Kathyrn Wilson The Collected Writings of James Weldon Johnson
  Jean Fagan Yellin African American Writers in European Editions
 
1994-1995 Allan D. Austin Proud Exiles in the Land of Unbelievers: African Muslims in Antebellum America
  Mia E. Bay The Lady Among the Races: Gender in African American Racial Thought, 1830-1925
  Kathleen Neal Cleaver Memories of Love and War
  Catherine Clinton Tara Revisited: African American Women and the Civil War
  Donald Cunnigen The Civil Rights Movement and the Mississippi White Liberal Community 
  Lee A. Daniels Pushing Propaganda: The Media's Coverage of Race in the 1980s and 1990s 
  Maria L. Diedrich Ottilie Assing - Frederick Douglass: Re-imagining the American Dream for a German Audience
  Gerald L. O'Grady The Films of the American Civil Rights Movement
  Nancy L. Grant Uncivil Service: Black in the Federal Government, 1940-1972
  Lucy K. Hayden Phillis Wheatley's Trip to London: Her Growth as a Black Poet
  Sieglinde D. Lemke Modernism, Primitivism, the Vogue Negre and the Harlem Renaissance
  William S. McFeely An Island's History: Sapelo and Its People
  Elizabeth A. McHenry Forgotten Readers: African American Literary Societies in the United States, 1830-1940
  Sabine Sielke Reading Rape
  Barbara L. Solow Marx, Slavery, and Economic Growth in Colonial America
  Patricia A. Sullivan Confronting the Color Line: The Letters of Virginia Durr, 1951-1968
  Constance Porter Uzelac The Relationship Between Henry O. Tanner and James A. Porter
 
1993-1994 Esme Bhan Reflections on Documenting Dorothy Porter Wesley's Life and Works
  Elsa Barkley Brown Telling Stories: The Invention of Black Richmond
  Selwyn Cudjoe Eric E. Williams and the Politics of Language
  Lee A. Daniels A Cyclone in a Wind Tunnel: African American Students in Higher Education, 1960 to the Present
  Thadious Davis Collisions of Gender and Race: Jessie Fauset's Victorian Modernism
  Sylvio Ferreira African American Scholars' Perceptions of Patterns of Race Relations in Brazil: A Contextualized Analysis
  George Fredrickson Reform and Revolution in American and South African Freedom Struggles
  Gerald R. Gill "No Jim Crowism in Boston": African American Protest Activities in Boston, 1939-1953
  James A. Miller Racial Representation in the 1930s
  Adam Zachary Newton Literary Blacks and Jews: A Thematics of Recognition
  Manisha Sinha "The must be lashed into submission": The Political Culture of Slavery and the Caning of Charles Sumner
  Clark Eldridge White The Lost Generation: Black Youth Unemployment, Class, and Public Policy
  Wang Xi The Inner Reconstruction: The Formation of the Republican Party's Policy Towards Black Suffrage, 1860-1870
  Jean Fagan Yellin Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in a Life
 
1992-1993 Fawaia Afzal-Khan Gender, Nationalism and the Politics of Identity: Towards Cross-Cultural Poetics of Women's Writing
  Lee D. Baker The Role of Anthropology in The Social Construction of Race
  Karen C.C. Dalton Image of the Black in Western Art
  Timothy H. Flake Medieval Studies: the Work of Louis F. Klipstein, Old English Scholar of the Ante-Bellum South
  George M. Fredrickson Black Ideologies and Movements in the United States and South Africa, 1880s-1980s
  Cheryl Townsend Gilkes The Sanctified Church and the African American Imagination: A Socio-historical Study of Community, Culture, and Social Change
  Maryemma Graham Enriching the Humanities: The Great Migration, 1900-1939
  Maya Hostettler Toni Morrison: Value in Literature; Reader's and Writer's Responsibilities
  William S. McFeely The Writing of Biography
  J. Lorand Matory Afro-Brazilian Religion and Politics
  Richard J. Powell Blacks, Visual Arts & Society in the Nineteenth Century America
  Gail M. Robinson Factors Influencing the Education and Careers of Four African American Male Opera Singers
  Walter Robinson "Look What a Wonder Jesus Has Done," An Opera based on the Life of Denmark Vesey
  William M. Rodgers Black Internal Migration from 1980 to 1991: A Response to Widening Black-White and Central City-Suburb Wage and Employment Gaps
  Norris D. Saakwa-Mante Eighteenth Century Studies of Human Variation
  Marcia R. Sawyer Surviving Freedom: African American Farm Households in Cass County, Michigan, 1832-1880
  Manisha Sinha Slavery and Planter Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina
  Barbara L. Solow Rise and Fall of Plantation Slavery in the West Indies: A Case Study
  Sondra Kathyrn Wilson James Weldon Johnson Papers and Documentary Project
 
 
Prior to 1992 Wande Abimbola  
  Hussein M. Adam  
  Fawzia Afzai-Khan  
  Benedicite Brigitte Alliot  
  David H. Anthony  
  Ronald L. Ausbrooks  
  Donald Irving Barfield  
  Elizabeth Rauh Bethel  
  Donald Allport Bird  
  David William Blight  
  Robert Bone  
  Silvia Boni  
  A. Alexander Bontemps  
  Kamau Brathwaite  
  Marcus Coleman Bruce  
  Jennifer Susan Burton  
  Deborah G. Chay  
  Chris B. Chikwujindu Chidebe  
  Lorraine T. Cole  
  James P. Danky  
  Clifford Ellis Darden  
  Marsha Jean Darling  
  Linda Carolyn Coleman Denard
  Billy Reginald Dickens  
  Samba Diop  
  St. Clair Drake  
  Melvin Drimmer  
  Berkley Eddins   
  Valerie Edmundson  
  Luckson E. Ejofodomi   
  Geneviève Fabre   
  Barbara J. Flint  
  Robert Elliot Fox   
  Peter Donald Fraser   
  Atsuko Furomoto   
  Shaun L. Gabbidon   
  Elbert Nathaniel Gates   
  Gloria Wade Gayles   
  James L. Lowell Gibbs, Jr.  
  Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, Jr.  
  Jacqueline A. Goggin   
  Leonard Goines   
  Will Gravely  
  Fritz Gysin  
  Karen Isabelle Halil  
  Michael George Hanchard  
  Jerome S. Handler  
  Katherine J. Harris  
  Robert L. Harris  
  Trudier Harris  
  William Joseph Harris   
  Naima A. Hasci   
  Linneal J. Henderson Jr.  
  Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham   
  Patricia S. Hills   
  Barbara Gullahorn Holecek   
  Robert Hood   
  Maya Ursala Hostettler-Geiger 
  Edward W. Hudlin   
  Brenda C. Huggins   
  Herbert Marshall Hunter  
  Maria T. Iacullo   
  Noel S. Ignatiev   
  Ephraim Isaac   
  Lawrence P. Jackson   
  Shirley M. Jackson   
  Walter Anderson Jackson   
  Weldon Jackson   
  Joseph Jarab   
  Hilmar Ludvig Jensen III  
  Christopher Johnson  
  Lillie Molliene Johnson   
  Carolyn Johnston   
  Jacqeline Jones  
  Charles Joyner  
  Robin Wallace Kilson  
  Robert R. Krueger  
  Florence C. Ladd   
  Theodore C. Landsmark   
  Shelly Leanne   
  Lester Preston Lee   
  Hope L. Lewis   
  Sara Lawrence Lightfoot  
  Carole C. Marks   
  Ionis Bracy Martin   
  Laura Maslow-Armand   
  Simon Mawondo  
  Robert H. McCormick Jr.  
  Debbie E. McDowell   
  Nellie Yvonne McKay   
  Leslie Burl McLemore   
  Curtina Moreland-Young   
  Robert P. Moses   
  Tahi Mottl   
  Elizabeth Muther   
  Samuel L. Myers, Jr.  
  Isadore Okpewho  
  Berndt Ostendorf  
  Betty J. Overton-Adkins  
  Stephan Palmié  
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  Stefania Piccinato  
  Seth H. Racusen  
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  George Shepperson  
  Sabine Sielke   
  Werner Sollors   
  Dorothy Steele   
  Therese H. Steffan   
  Helen L. Stewart   
  Alice Jackson Stuart   
  Nadia Joutey Hassani Tahri  
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  Jeff Todd Titon  
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  Richard Brent Turner  
  Richard M. Valelly   
  Robert M. Vare  
  Gloria M. Waite   
  Juliet E. Walker   
  Jiaxing Wang   
  James Melvin Washington   
  Jerry Gafio Watts   
  Robert S. Weisbrot  
  Dorothy Porter Wesley  
  Michael Rudolph West  
  Andre C. Willis  
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  Francille Rusan Wilson  
  Julie Winch  
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  Jaquelyn H. Wolf  
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  John Samuel Wright  
  Gayle L. Wurst  
  Richard Yarborough