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Time for Black Studies [Session Two]

Thursday, Mar 25, 2021

In the wake of Covid-19 and uprisings in response to a climate of anti-blackness, join us for a conversation about time, temporality, and Black life: how time is racialized, how race is temporalized and how time is wielded as a tool of racialized violence. Why are some able to use time, while others are largely used and abused by it? Why is it that some are able to own time, while others can only owe it? Together, let us make time to think about what it might look like to move from liberal to liberatory futurities.
Dr. Eddie Glaude Awarded 2021 Stowe Prize

Friday, Feb 26, 2021

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

Stowe Prize 2021, honoring Dr. Eddie Glaude, for his book, Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own.
Time for Black Studies [Session One]

Thursday, Feb 25, 2021

Ruha Benjamin

In the wake of Covid-19 and uprisings in response to a climate of anti-blackness, join us for a conversation about time, temporality, and Black life: how time is racialized, how race is temporalized and how time is wielded as a tool of racialized violence. Why are some able to use time, while others are largely used and abused by it? Why is it that some are able to own time, while others can only owe it? Together, let us make time to think about what it might look like to move from liberal to liberatory futurities.
Wallace Best among Faculty members named to endowed professorships

Wednesday, Nov 25, 2020

Office of Communications, Princeton University

Five members of the Princeton faculty have been named to endowed professorships, effective Dec. 1.
Princeton University's Board approves faculty promotion for Prof. Ruha Benjamin

Wednesday, Nov 25, 2020

Office of Communications, Princeton University

Princeton University’s Board of Trustees has approved the following faculty promotions, effective Jan. 16, 2021.
Wallace Best leads the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies into a dynamic new era

Thursday, Oct 1, 2020

Denise Valenti, Office of Communications

Gender and sexuality studies are ideally positioned to help us to understand the complex world we face, says Wallace Best, professor of religion and African American studies, who was recently appointed director of Princeton University’s Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies (GSS).
Ruha Benjamin and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Named Freedom Scholars

Wednesday, Sep 16, 2020

Denise Valenti, Office of Communications

Ruha Benjamin, associate professor of African American studies at Princeton University, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, assistant professor of African American studies, have been named among the first cohort of Freedom Scholars, an initiative supporting progressive academics who are at the forefront of movements for economic and social justice.
The Daily Show: Eddie S. Glaude Jr. - “Begin Again” & Lessons from James Baldwin

Tuesday, Aug 4, 2020

The Daily Show

On The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. discusses examining present-day America through the lens of James Baldwin: “At the end of the day, he wants to insist that we be true to ourselves, that we tell the truth about what we’ve done so that we can free ourselves into imagining being together differently.”
Inside the JUST DATA Lab with Trina Swanson '20

Tuesday, Jul 28, 2020

Camey VanSant, Center for Digital Humanities

For Trina Swanson ’20 and her colleagues at the JUST DATA Lab, data is a means more than an end. Founded by Professor Ruha Benjamin (African American Studies), a member of the Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) Executive Board, the JUST DATA Lab aims both to analyze data within its historical and social contexts and to deploy it to advance justice and equality.
Princeton Seniors Oakland, Ott Receive Awards for Leadership and Service

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Emily Aronson, Office of Communications

Princeton seniors Matthew Oakland and Olivia Ott have been awarded two of the University’s highest awards for graduating students. Oakland, of Elk Grove, California, has been given the Frederick Douglass Service Award. Ott, of Hailey, Idaho, received the Harold Willis Dodds Achievement Prize.