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On Topic: The history of black studies with Gerald Early

2.12.18 |

Professor Gerald Early recently oversaw African and African-American Studies’ transition from program to full-fledged department at WashU. Here, he talks about the student activism that kick-started black studies programs around the country.

2.9.18

Katherine Dunham: The Artist as Activist

2.9.18 |

Eartha Kitt, foreground, and James Dean in a Katherine Dunham dance class in the early 1950s. There's hardly a more recognizable figure in dance, especially African-American modern dance, than Katherine Dunham. In her new book, dance scholar Joanna Dee Das explores Dunham's engagement in the black freedom struggle both onstage and off.

2.7.18

McCune to be scholar-in-residence at 26th American Men’s Studies conference

1.29.18

Talking About Voice and Performance

1.29.18 |

Paige McGinley previews the upcoming interdisciplinary symposium, “Embodying Intimacy: New Work in Voice and Performance."

1.26.18

Center for the Humanities faculty fellows named

1.26.18 |

The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis has named its 2018-19 cohort of six faculty fellows.

1.25.18

Faculty for the next generation

1.17.18 |

The Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis has won a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help transform doctoral training in the humanities.

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On Topic: The history of black studies with Gerald Early