Cheryl Hicks, 2011 Brown Prize winner and 2016 chair of our nominating committee, shared with us the very good news about support she has received for her second project: a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society; a Program in African American History Mellon Scholars Post-Doctoral Fellowship from The Library Company of Philadelphia; and she was selected to participate in a NEH Summer Institute, “American Material Culture: 19th Century New York,” at the …
ABWH Farwestern Director, Marne Campbell just received tenure at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Campbell is now an Associate Professor of African American Studies. Her first book, Making Black Los Angeles: Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917 was published last fall by University of North Carolina Press. We will be celebrating Marne and all the Farwestern regions accomplishments in our annual end of the semester gathering coming soon. marne.campbell@lmu.edu
We are very proud to announce that Barbara D. Savage, has been named the 2018-19 Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Oxford University. Savage is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought and chair of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. As part of the year-long appointment, Savage also will be a Fellow at The Queen’s College and be affiliated with the faculty at Oxford’s Rothermere …
ABWH member Brenda Stevenson on the L. A. riots in the Los Angeles Times:
ABWH Statement on the Modern-Day Lynching of Black Women in the U.S. Justice System The suspicious death of Sandra Bland, 28, found hanged to death in a Texas jail cell three days after being arrested for an improper lane change, is the latest outrage in the long history of assaults on black women and girls by the United States Justice System. The members of the Association of Black Women Historians …