W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute

2018 Nov 07

Colloquium with Mary Hicks: 'Africa/Brazil: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery'

12:00pm

Location:

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Mary Hicks ...

2018 Oct 31

Colloquium with Jarvis Givens: 'Fugitive Pedagogy in the Jim Crow Classroom: The Case of Carter G. Woodson'

12:00pm

Location:

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Guest Colloquium Speaker Jarvis Givens, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Suzanne Young... Read more about Colloquium with Jarvis Givens: 'Fugitive Pedagogy in the Jim Crow Classroom: The Case of Carter G. Woodson'

2018 Oct 24

Colloquium Discussion: 'Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil'

12:00pm

Location:

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

A discussion with author William Middleton and art historians Paul Kaplan and Karen Dalton

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2018 Oct 10

Colloquium with Peter Hulme: "Wilfred A. Domingo: 'One of the chief trouble-makers among the Negroes'"

12:00pm

Location:

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

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Peter Hulme is Emeritus Professor in...

2018 Oct 03

Colloquium with Ellis Monk: 'Rethinking Ethnoracial Inequality in the U.S. & Brazil: The Consequences of Bodily Capital'

12:00pm

Location:

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Guest Colloquium Speaker Ellis Monk, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

2018 Sep 26

Colloquium with Jessica Welburn Paige: 'Almost Lost Detroit: African Americans, Racialized Individualism and Social Resilience in the Context of Public Sector Contraction'

12:00pm

Location:

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

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2018 Sep 19

Colloquium with Michael Ralph: 'Before the 13th: The Origins of Convict Leasing'

12:00pm

Location:

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

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2018 Sep 12

Colloquium with David Lammy: 'The Persistence of Race and Class in the Political Discourse of Britain'

12:00pm

Location:

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Guest Colloquium Speaker David Lammy, Member of Parliament, UK

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2018 Sep 05

Colloquium with ZZ Packer: 'The Thousands: A Novel'

12:00pm

Location:

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

ZZ Packer was born in Chicago and raised in Atlanta and Louisville, Kentucky. She graduated from Yale, and afterward received...

Announcing the 2018-2019 Fellows

The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Announces its Sixth Class of W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American...

Civil Rights Activist, Educator, Journalist (1868–1963)

Who Was W.E.B. Du Bois?

Scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In 1895, he became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Du Bois wrote extensively and was the best known spokesperson for...

NAACP HISTORY: W.E.B. DUBOIS

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He was born and raised in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He had two children with his wife,... Read more about NAACP HISTORY: W.E.B. DUBOIS

Announcing the 2018-2019 Fellows

June 8, 2018

Announcing the 2018-2019 Fellows

The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research Announces its Sixth Class of W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, welcomes twenty-three Fellows for the 2018-2019 academic year.

“We are happy to welcome yet another class of scholars and artists engaged in timely and exciting work,” says...

Shirley Moody-Turner

Associate Professor of English and African American Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Spring 2023: Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow

Shirley Moody-Turner is Associate professor of English and African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Her...

Rumbi Katedza

Independent Filmmaker
Fall 2019: J. M. D. Manyika Fellow

Rumbi Katedza is a filmmaker and writer, who has lived in the USA, Japan, Italy, Canada, the UK and Zimbabwe. She produces corporate and independent...

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W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute

Colloquium with Mary Hicks: 'Africa/Brazil: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery'

Location:

Colloquium with Jarvis Givens: 'Fugitive Pedagogy in the Jim Crow Classroom: The Case of Carter G. Woodson'

Location:

Colloquium Discussion: 'Double Vision: The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil'

Location:

Colloquium with Peter Hulme: "Wilfred A. Domingo: 'One of the chief trouble-makers among the Negroes'"

Location:

Colloquium with Ellis Monk: 'Rethinking Ethnoracial Inequality in the U.S. & Brazil: The Consequences of Bodily Capital'

Location:

Colloquium with Jessica Welburn Paige: 'Almost Lost Detroit: African Americans, Racialized Individualism and Social Resilience in the Context of Public Sector Contraction'

Location:

Colloquium with Michael Ralph: 'Before the 13th: The Origins of Convict Leasing'

Location:

Colloquium with David Lammy: 'The Persistence of Race and Class in the Political Discourse of Britain'

Location:

Colloquium with ZZ Packer: 'The Thousands: A Novel'

Location:

Announcing the 2018-2019 Fellows

Civil Rights Activist, Educator, Journalist (1868–1963)

Who Was W.E.B. Du Bois?

NAACP HISTORY: W.E.B. DUBOIS

Announcing the 2018-2019 Fellows

Announcing the 2018-2019 Fellows

Shirley Moody-Turner

Rumbi Katedza

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