L&S News  Tag: Afro-American Studies

YWCA Madison has announced that Associate Professor of History, Christy Clark-Pujara, will be among the recipients of the Women of Distinction Leadership Award at the organization’s 47th annual awards ceremony in May.

Afro-American Studies Professor Christina Greene shares her research on the '70s civil rights trial of Joan Little.

Teacher, actress, director, model, actor. Professor in the Afro-American Studies department, Sandra Adell talks about her childhood in Detroit, overcoming life's challenges, the unusual selling point that drew her to UW-Madison, and how last year’s racial justice protests have changed the classroom dynamic.

Professor of History and Afro-American Studies says Wisconsin's history is "racially progressive and oppressive at the same time."

Professor Sandra Adell has built her entry level class on African-American dramatic literature around the principles of acting and theater, using drama as a key to unlock her students’ imaginations and get them to discuss difficult issues surrounding race and ethnicity.

Twelve faculty members - nine of them from the College of Letters & Science - have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize the university’s finest educators.

Students, staff and faculty collaborated to create “Whirling Return of the Ancestors," which highlights one tradition of the Yorùbá people in Western Africa. The gallery came about because of a collaboration between the Art History Department, the Afro-American Studies Department, the School of Human Ecology, the Ruth Davis Design Gallery and students. This is the first exhibit in the Ruth Davis Design Gallery that was formed out of a partnership with other departments at UW, Newell says.

In a campus tradition dating back to 2007-2008, the award celebrates women who share their exceptional scholarship with the campus and community through their dedicated work, outreach and impact.

“I think the reaction to the song was shock; Curtis had been such a voice for harmony and reconciliation,” says Craig Werner, an Afro-American studies professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Curtis Mayfield and the Rise and Fall of American Soul.