Wintersession’s Annual Beyond the Resume event is proud to feature Michaela Coel.

Emmy and BAFTA award-winning actress, playwright, screenwriter, director, showrunner, poet, and author Michaela Coel is an international phenomenon. Coel’s ground-breaking dark comedy-drama, I May Destroy You, premiered on HBO and BBC to critical…

This seminar investigates the enduring interplay between speculation and Blackness. In recent years, speculation has emerged as a key term in Black and African American Studies with speculation emerging as the site where…

What are the costs of black activism? Which citizens are asked to perform the necessary democratic labor to redress racial injustice?

This seminar investigates the enduring interplay between speculation and Blackness. In recent years, speculation has emerged as a key term in Black and African American Studies with speculation emerging as the site where…

Meet employers and alumni at the upcoming Career Fair 🤝

What role do critiques of US imperial strategy have within the field of Black Studies, and in what ways should these critiques impact public policy?

A self-described ‘wayward political theorist’, Dr. Bedour Alagraa received her Ph.D. from the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University in the Spring of 2019, where she was an Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Fellow. She also holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, and a…

The "Faculty Brown Bag" was created to provide a forum for AAS faculty to present their current work or to workshop new ideas with colleagues over a nice lunch.

Nate Lewis explores history through patterns, textures, and rhythm, creating meditations of celebration and lamentations.

This seminar investigates the enduring interplay between speculation and Blackness. In recent years, speculation has emerged as a key term in Black and African American Studies with speculation emerging as the site where…

Justin L. Mann earned his Ph.D. in American Studies from George Washington University. His research and teaching are primarily concerned with the worldmaking and -breaking relationship between U.S. literature and state policy. His current manuscript in-progress, Breaking the World, argues that Black…

This seminar investigates the enduring interplay between speculation and Blackness. In recent years, speculation has emerged as a key term in Black and African American Studies with speculation emerging as the site where…

Sites of Memory: A Symposium on Toni Morrison and the Archive brings together scholars, artists, writers, and activists to celebrate, interrogate, and reflect upon the archive in relation to Toni Morrison’s writing, her teaching, and her public intellectual work. The event is part of a year of programming surrounding the Spring 2023…

Ayah Nuriddin has a Ph.D. in the History of Medicine from Johns Hopkins University. She also holds an M.A. in History and an MLS from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a B.A. in International Relations and History from American University. Her work examines how African Americans navigated questions of racial science, eugenics, and…

Chanika Svetvilas is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural worker whose practice focuses on mental health difference. Her work is an extension of her continued interest in using narratives as a way to challenge stereotypes in contemporary society and to create safe spaces. She has presented her work in a variety of spaces and contexts…

This seminar investigates the enduring interplay between speculation and Blackness. In recent years, speculation has emerged as a key term in Black and African American Studies with speculation emerging as the site where…