Claire B. Crawford, assistant professor of Africana Political Thought in the Department of Politics and International Affairs and the Program in African American Studies, was awarded an American Political Science Association Advancing Research Grant for Early Career Scholars for her project “Hum So the […]
Corey D. B. Walker, Dean of School of Divinity, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, and Director of Program in African American Studies, was featured in Charles Blow’s recent New York Times column “On Juneteenth, Freedom Came With Strings Attached.”
Dean and Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities Corey D. B. Walker comments on Karen Baynes-Dunning (’89) appointment as chair of the board for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the importance of her leadership as a Wake Forest University student for […]
Alton B. Pollard III will join the faculty of Wake Forest University as the James and Marilyn Dunn Chair in Baptist Studies in the School of Divinity and University Professor of African American Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences beginning July 1, […]
Distinguished scholar of religion Corey D. B. Walker has been named Dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Walker, who is Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities, has served as interim dean for the school since January.
Wake Forest University African American Studies Professor of the Practice in Residence Patrick ‘9th Wonder’ Douthit will be featured in a celebration of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop on Monday, July 24, 2023 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The event is sponsored by the Arts Council […]
For Juneteenth, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities Corey D. B. Walker shares a list of readings that can help people better understand the history and meaning of the observance.
Award winning journalist and 2023 Wake Forest – Mellon Environmental Justice Institute director Melba Newsome is one of the featured speakers for this year’s Asheville Ideas Fest.
African American Studies Professor Shanna Greene Benjamin was a featured guest at a recent Schomburg Center for Research in Black Cultures’s Black Freedom Studies event discussing her award winning biography of noted scholar Nellie Y. McKay.
The Wake Forest University Environmental and Epistemic Justice Initiative will host its inaugural Summer Institute from June 26-30, 203 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Institute will welcome four to six early to mid-career journalists as the inaugural class of Wake Forest […]
