Wilson will give four presentations in the prestigious annual lectures over four Sundays, March 9-30 in Washington, D.C.
The grant supports a three-year project designed to archive and preserve the global Black experience through community-driven archival projects.
The application deadline is March 20, 2025, for the Prize, which honors student efforts to promote social justice.
Watch an exciting conversation and listen to readings from the book by legendary performer Helga Davis.
Professor Wilson takes over as the new chair of the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies.
The National Gallery announced today that Professor Wilson will give the 74th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts in spring 2025.
The Department unequivocally condemns the police siege of the Columbia University campus on April 30, 2024, and the ongoing police occupation.
Edwidge Danticat, the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities, has written an article published in The New Yorker.
The Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, and Institute for Research in African American Studies stand with our students. They face arrest, suspension, and police harassment for expressing their constitutional rights of assembly and speech on their campus.
Edwidge Danticat has returned to Morningside Heights this fall as the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities.
Professor Jafari Allen is among several Columbia anthropologists to win awards at the 2023 American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting.