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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
