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, 2023 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Institute will welcome four to six early to mid-career journalists as the inaugural class of Wake Forest Mellon Environmental Justice Journalism […]
The Phi Beta Kappa Society announced the appointment of Wake Forest Professor of Humanities Corey D. B. Walker as a 2023-24 Visiting Scholar. Walker is among 14 scholars awarded this honor. The Society selects top scholars in the liberal arts and sciences to visit universities and […]
The Mellon Foundation has awarded a $1 million grant to Wake Forest University to create a model program for engaging scholars and the local community in advancing environmental justice. “This is an opportunity to develop a cross-institutional program that leverages the […]
Prof. Shanna Greene Benjamin’s, “Half Life in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay,” has been awarded an honorable mention for the Modern Language Association’s 2022 William Sanders Scarborough Prize. The William Sanders Scarborough Prize is awarded for outstanding […]
Prof. Julia Jordan-Zachery was a featured guest on episode four of WBUR’s On Point series “Essential Trust” discussing “Trust – and the need for healthy skepticism.”
Award winning artist and Wake Forest University Professor of the Practice in Residence in African American Studies Patrick “9th Wonder” Douthit is in a new episode of “Left of Black” hosted by Duke University’s James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Mark Anthony […]
Shanna Greene Benjamin, Professor of African American Studies, was awarded a 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Biography/Memoir for her book “Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay” published by the University of North Carolina Press.
Corey D. B. Walker as been named interim Dean of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, beginning Jan. 1, 2023. A distinguished scholar of African American social, political and religious thought, Walker will continue to serve as Wake Forest Professor […]