News & Announcements
News
Faculty Recognitions and Awards
Sundiata Cha-Jua, Associate Professor, and Clarence Lang, Assistant Professor, of African American Studies and History, received the 2009 EBSCOhost America: History and Life Award from the Organization of American Historians for their article, "The 'Long Movement' as Vampire: Temporal and Spatial Fallacies in Recent Black Freedom Studies". The article appeared in The Journal of African American History, Spring 2007.
Christopher Benson, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Journalism has been awarded the Black Excellence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature (Non-Fiction) by the African American Arts Alliance of Chicago for his book, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America.
Ruby Mendenhall, Assistant Professor in Sociology and African American Studies, was named a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan's National Center for Institutional Diversity.
Clarence Lang, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and History, was named a Faculty Fellow by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities for Fall 2009.
Helen Neville, Professor of Educational Psychology and African American Studies has been awarded the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency. During her time in Rome, Professor Neville will work on her project "A Transnational Examination of Black Racial Identities".
Jabari Asim, Visiting Lecturer in African American Studies and Journalism, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (Creative Arts, General Non-Fiction) for his many contributions to African American literature and culture.
Announcements
Leon Dash, Professor of Journalism, African American Studies, and Law, was appointed Director of the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) in September. Dash is a Swanlund Chair and Pulitzer-prize-winning author and journalist.
Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History by Jim Loewen