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Dr. Blain is a full professor of history and Africana studies at Brown University in Rhode Island. As a historian of the twentieth-century United States, she focuses her scholarship on African American history, the modern African diaspora, and women's and gender studies.

Currently serving as the Charles G. Adams Professor of African American Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity School, Dr. Johnson is slated to become the next Mary Lee Hardin Willard Dean of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University on August 1.

Dr. Osayimwese, professor and department chair at Brown University, will serve a two-year term as the society's vice president, followed by another two-year term as president. Her scholarship centers on relationship between political ideologies and the built environment in sub-Saharan African, the Caribbean, and Europe between 1750 and 1950.

Professor Dantict, the Wun Tsum Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities in the department of African American and African diaspora studies at Columbia University, is the author of 18 books, including works of fiction and nonfiction.

Yale University has announced the eight recipients of the 2026 Windham-Campbell Prizes, one of the world’s most significant international literary awards. One of the eight winners is an African American woman.

A new study led by Rice University's Tony Brown examines the prevalence of “racial realism” among Black Americans. The term refers to an ideological stance and mindset that describes racism as a lasting feature of American life.

Dr. Simmons has served as president of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View A&M University. When she was appointed president of Brown, she became the African American woman to lead an Ivy League school.

A team of scholars from Brown University and Harvard University has found premature deaths—those occurring before age 65—have steadily increased in the United States in recent years, particularly among Black Americans.

This year, 15 works of fiction authored or edited by 19 writers and poets were awarded an American Book Award. Of these winners, three are Black scholars currently holding faculty appointments at American-based institutions.

According to a new study, school finance reforms that were designed to close spending gaps between high and low-income school districts increased spending disparities between districts with low and high percentages of Black and Hispanic students.

Katherine Tate, professor of political science at Brown University, is a leading scholar on African American politics, race and gender in political science, American public opinion, government, and urban politics.

Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.

Launched by the African American Intellectual History Society, Global Black Thought will feature essays on Black ideas, theories, and intellectuals from authors in a wide-range of history and the social science fields. Keisha Blaine of Brown University will serve as the journal's inaugural editor-in-chief.

The appointments are Beatrice Adams at Princeton University in New Jersey, Patricia Poitevien at Brown University in Rhode Island, Tony Brown at Rice University in Houston, and Najja Baptist at the University of Arkansas.

"In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that greatly limited any consideration of race in admission decisions, Brown remains committed to complying with the law while fostering a diverse and inclusive community as integral to our mission of academic excellence," wrote Provost Francis Doyle and Patricia Poitevien, interim vice president for institutional equity and diversity.

The Journal of Black Military Studies will feature articles discussing the military experience in context of the Black diaspora. Françoise N. Hamlin, associate professor at Brown University, will serve as the inaugural editor-in-chief.

Gene Jarrett's book, Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird, tells the story of Dunbar's life as an African American writer in the late 1800s.

The finalists are Kerri Greenidge, professor at Tufts University; Sarah Johnson, professor at the University of California, San Diego; and Emily Owens, professor at Brown University.

Keisha Blain of Brown University and Cécile Fromont of Harvard University have received 2024 Dan David Prizes for their outstanding achievements as academic historians.

From 1970 to 1976, Dr. Hudson served as the tenth president of what is now Hampton University in Virginia. He also held an interim appointment as president of his undergraduate alma mater, Livingstone College in North Carolina.