New Podcast Explores Past, Present and Future of Black Studies
John Drabinski and Ashley Newby’s “The Black Studies Podcast” is supported by a $100k grant from the Mellon Foundation.
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2023 Vambery Graduate Student Summer Fellowship
Shalom Rosenberg (he/him) was awarded the 2023 Clara and Robert Vambery Graduate Student Summer Fellowship in Comparative Studies.
Author/Lead: Shalom RosenbergThis award is offered by the Comparative Literature Department. Recipients of the Clara and Robert Vambery Graduate Student Summer fellowship are selected on the basis of demonstrated work in European and American comparative literary studies in print, in film, or in other newly discovered technological forms.
2023-2024 Wylie Dissertation Award
Shalom Rosenberg (he/him) was awarded the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Author/Lead: Shalom RosenbergShalom plans to utilize the Fall 2023 semester to devote time to work on his dissertation, titled "Nu Queer Cinema: Jewish Intersectionality in the Digital Age."
Shortlisted, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2023 Book Prize
Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation
Author/Lead: Julius Fleming
Award Organization:
The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation is shortlisted for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2023 Book Prize.
Finalist, 2023 Hooks National Book Award (Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change)
Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation
Author/Lead: Julius Fleming
Award Organization:
Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change
Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation is a Finalist for the 2023 Hooks National Book Award (Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change).
Honorable Mention, 2023 John W. Frick Book Award (American Theatre and Drama Society)
Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation
Author/Lead: Julius Fleming
Award Organization:
American Theatre and Drama Society
Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2023 John W. Frick Book Award by the American Theatre and Drama Society.
Killing the King, Three Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy
By Maynard Mack, Jr.
Author/Lead: Maynard (Sandy) Mack
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Regicide is a central fact of the tragic—and historic—world of Shakespeare. In this illuminating study, Mr. Mack examines regicide in three of Shakespeare's most interesting and controversial plays, Richard II, Hamlet, and Macbeth.