September 5, 2025 Andrew Kahrl's book "The Black Tax" received the Lizabeth Cohen Prize for Best Book on Cities and Political Power (opens in a new tab) March 28, 2025 Martin Luther King, Jr. III visited the Introduction to African American Studies course taught by Nemata Blyden March 24, 2025 Andrew Kahrl's book The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (U. Chicago Press, 2024) was reviewed in Forbes "Is The ‘Predatory’ Property Tax An Instrument Of Oppression?" (opens in a new tab) March 7, 2025 Ashleigh Wade delivered the opening keynote at the University of Kentucky’s 30th Black Women’s Conference, which took place March 7-8. The conference theme for this year was: “We Are the Culture: A Symposium on Black Girls and Girlhood March 7, 2025 Robin Means Coleman's new book The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Films was published in March 2025 with Oxford University Press. This is Professor Coleman's third book in two years (opens in a new tab) March 1, 2025 Woodson faculty members Nemata Blyden and Sabrina Pendergrass, featured on PBS' "Great Migrations" Series (2025) (opens in a new tab) February 17, 2025 Registration OPEN for the New Directions in Black Disabilities Conference (opens in a new tab) February 17, 2025 Andrew Kahrl's book The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (U. Chicago Press, 2024) has been named a finalist in the History category for the LA Times Book Prize (opens in a new tab) February 6, 2025 Fatima Siwaju a panelist at an event hosted by The Yale Ethnography Hub on Ethnography and Citizenship: Global and Local Perspectives February 3, 2025 Andrew Kahrl delivered the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture at Vanderbilt Law School in which he discussed his recent book The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (opens in a new tab) January 31, 2025 Nemata Blyden to give keynote address for the academic conference connected to the 2025 Zora! Festival (opens in a new tab) January 29, 2025 Kimberly Fields published an article in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Among the co-authors are two recent UVA Graduate students who were former students in her class and Repair Lab research assistants (opens in a new tab) January 17, 2025 Kimberly Fields awarded a Pioneering Ideas Grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for her project The Future of Evidence: Low-Cost Sensing, Local Knowledge, and Evidence to Drive Change Around Airborne Coal Dust January 17, 2025 Fatima Siwaju's project entitled “Never Surrender Yet: Narratives of Resistance and Resilience in Afro-Trinidadian Islam” has been published with the support of the Crossroads Project on Black Religious Histories, Communities, and Cultures (opens in a new tab) January 17, 2025 Naseemah Mohamed traveled to Molokai with Dr. Robin Garcia, student Sophia Gibby, and alumna Grace Gray, funded by the UVA Provost’s Office. Their collaboration with Ho’aka Mana, a Native Hawaiian-led organization, explored cultural revitalization January 17, 2025 Anne Rotich took students on a J-Term Study Abroad trip to Kenya January 17, 2025 Martin Luther King, Jr.'s eldest son Martin Luther King, III visited Nemata Blyden's Introduction to African American and African Studies course last semester. Blyden introduced King to the class of nearly 120 students January 13, 2025 Former Woodson faculty member Marlene Daut's forthcoming monograph (January 2025) The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe was reviewed in The American Scholar (opens in a new tab) December 24, 2024 Kimberly Fields published an article in the Environmental Justice Journal: "Practicing Repair:Advancing Community-Based Solutions on Coal Dust Pollution in Hampton Roads, Virginia through a Practitioner-in-Residence Program" (opens in a new tab) December 17, 2024 Woodson fellows, students, faculty and staff capped off another semester by gathering for a family-style dinner with a holiday playlist and games December 4, 2024 Andrew Kahrl's book The Black Tax was reviewed in Public Books as part of their series on Global Black History: "The Poverty of Homeownership" (opens in a new tab) December 4, 2024 Kimberly Fields to deliver talk at Ivy Creek Foundation - "Shaping Justice: The Relationship Between Grassroots Activism, Public Policymaking Processes, Institutions and Environmental Justice Efforts in the Mid-Atlantic Region" (opens in a new tab) December 3, 2024 Ashleigh Wade received a TYDE Seed Grant to support developing a non-profit social media platform for Black youth (opens in a new tab) November 4, 2024 Nemata Blyden gave a virtual talk at Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art entitled "African Immigrants in America" October 31, 2024 The Woodson hosted a festive Fall event last month "Frights and Bites" with Halloween treats and spooky movies October 24, 2024 Nemata Blyden moderated a panel discussion following a film screening of Brief and Tender Light, sponsored by the International Studies Office October 24, 2024 Book Talk: Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery Ana Lucia Arujo in conversation with Nemata Blyden (opens in a new tab) October 22, 2024 Lisa Shutt participated in an event with UVA's Lifetime Learning at Ivy Creek Natural Area & Historic River View Farm (opens in a new tab) October 7, 2024 Jennifer C. Nash gave a talk on UVA Grounds as part of a co-sponsered event with the Department of English October 4, 2024 Ashon Crawley has been appointed the Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at Duke and UNC, Chapel Hill (opens in a new tab) October 1, 2024 Kevin Gaines featured at a local event for Banned Books Week. He lead a discussion of James Baldwin's "My Dungeon Shook" alongside Dr. Gaila Sims: "No Book Left Behind: A Celebration of Our Freedom to Read (opens in a new tab) September 25, 2024 Former Woodson Faculty member Marlene Daut quoted in an article in The Progressive about misinformation regarding Haitian immigrants in Ohio (opens in a new tab) September 24, 2024 Nemata Blyden will be on a panel, "David Harrington & Friends: A Conversation about Creating Music for Kronos Quartet at the Library of Congress (opens in a new tab) September 4, 2024 Andrew Kahrl quoted in a New York Times article "In New Orleans, a ‘Black Beach’ Is Being Rescued From the Ruins" which also features a National Parks Service study on which he was co-PI (opens in a new tab) September 3, 2024 Robert Trent Vinson published an article in the latest issue of the journal Safundi: "Mandela and MK: situating South African history in the Black Radical Tradition" (opens in a new tab) August 27, 2024 Welcoming 2024-2025 Interim Leadership, Previewing Fall 2024 Courses (opens in a new tab) August 1, 2024 Woodson Fellows Ava Purkiss (pre-doctoral fellow, 2016) Eshe Shirley, (post-doctoral fellow, 2024), served as co-authors on a piece in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: "Ambivalence as a Feminist Project (opens in a new tab) June 17, 2024 Kevin Gaines quoted in article about passing of Bernice Johnson Reagon, a founder of The Freedom Singers and Sweet Honey in the Rock (opens in a new tab) May 31, 2024 Nema Blyden publishes article in The Conversation Stevie Wonder’s Ghanaian citizenship reflects long-standing links between African Americans and the continent (opens in a new tab) May 25, 2024 Kevin Gaines interviewed in a story for PRX's The World: Stevie Wonder celebrates new Ghanaian citizenship (opens in a new tab) May 13, 2024 Nemata Blyden's visit to St. Eustatius featured in local news coverage due to her connections to the famous pan-Africanist Edward Wilmot Blyden (opens in a new tab) May 5, 2024 Amber Henry, Woodson post-doctoral fellow, won 1st place in the "Lightning Talk" competition at 2024 Post-Doctoral Research Symposium May 5, 2024 Robert Trent Vinson published an article in the latest issue of Moya Magazine, "The Inescapable Single Garment of Destiny" (opens in a new tab) May 4, 2024 People want to breathe better air in Hampton Roads, Virginia. How Kim Fields and the Repair Lab are working with community members to seek environmental justice for the decades of coal dust that they’ve inhaled. (opens in a new tab) April 26, 2024 Andrew Kahrl Features in NYT article "An Enduring Race Tax" (opens in a new tab) April 24, 2024 Tax History Matters: A Q&A with Professor Andrew Kahrl, Author of ‘The Black Tax’ (opens in a new tab) April 22, 2024 The Black Tax: why have African Americans been cheated by the system for so long? (opens in a new tab) April 17, 2024 Laura E. Helton (pre-doctoral fellow, 2015) published her first book, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History, as part of the Black Lives in the Diaspora Series, a joint project of Columbia University Press (opens in a new tab) April 11, 2024 Andrew Kahrl guest essay published in The New York Times - "It’s Time to End the Quiet Cruelty of Property Taxes" (opens in a new tab) April 6, 2024 ‘The Biggest Honor of My Academic Career’: Endowed Professors Celebrated (opens in a new tab) April 5, 2024 Nemata Blyden was interviewed for the podcast Articles of Interest (opens in a new tab) March 14, 2024 Andrew Kahrl was quoted in The Christian Science Monitor (opens in a new tab) March 11, 2024 Ta-Nehisi Coates Speaks at UVA on the Future of Reparations and the Power of Writing (opens in a new tab) February 23, 2024 They Learn Swahili. The Community Reaps the Rewards (opens in a new tab) February 7, 2024 Kevin Gaines was appointed to the "Committee on Institutional Statements" February 5, 2024 Black Girl Autopoetics was featured in Ms. Magazine (opens in a new tab) January 30, 2024 Lisa Shutt awarded Jefferson Trust grant for "Engaging Local Histories: River View Farm, January 19, 2024 Julie Saville, historian who made enormous impact on the study of slavery, 1947-2023 January 10, 2024 Ashon Crawley awarded UVA's 2023 Arts & Humanities Award January 8, 2024 Mellon Grant Will Advance the Woodson’s International Reputation November 9, 2023 Anna Duensing published What We Talk About When We Talk About Fascism" in History & Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History (opens in a new tab) October 22, 2023 Kevin Gaines featured on a panel discussion at the Miller Center on the future of affirmative action (opens in a new tab) October 13, 2023 Mike Hollins (AAS CLAS 23') Featured in UVAToday (opens in a new tab) October 13, 2023 Olivia Polk (pre-doctoral fellow) presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art during an event co-hosted by the arts organization Visual AIDS. (opens in a new tab) October 7, 2023 Frances Bell (pre-doctoral fellow) presented on a panel, titled "Contested Freedoms, Contested Sovereignties in the Haitian Revolutionary Atlantic" October 6, 2023 Amber M. Henry (post-doctoral fellow) presented at the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on "Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change" (opens in a new tab) September 5, 2023 Jasper Conner published in Fall special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly focused on race and colonization August 22, 2023 Two Woodson AAS majors earn the honor of becoming lawn residents (opens in a new tab) August 16, 2023 Beyond Granite: Pulling Together - Ashon Crawley's creates exhibition entitled HOMEGOING on the U.S. National Mall (opens in a new tab) August 12, 2023 Move over, monuments: The Mall gets first curated multi-artist exhibit (opens in a new tab) August 3, 2023 ASWAD's 11th Biennial Conference takes place at the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana August 3, 2023 Beyond Granite: Pulling Together stages six installations on the National Mall that recall underrepresented American histories (opens in a new tab) August 3, 2023 African Diaspora conference opens in Accra (opens in a new tab) August 2, 2023 Alexandria Smith published an essay on She's Gotta Have It in the journal Cultural Studies August 1, 2023 Black Girl Autopoetics wins Scholars of Color First Book Award July 28, 2023 Professor, UVA Library Team Explore Black Roots Local Farm (opens in a new tab) July 18, 2023 Nasrin Olla awarded the Ralph Cohen Prize from New Literary History July 15, 2023 In Virginia, reopening a 125-year-old case rights a historical injustice (opens in a new tab) July 11, 2023 Deborah McDowell led a discussion on the documentary film, Murders that Matter July 5, 2023 ‘Thanks for visiting Florida’: one Black family’s road trip to a ‘hostile’ tourist trap (opens in a new tab) June 7, 2023 When Private Beaches Served as a Refuge for the Chesapeake Bay’s Black Elite (opens in a new tab) May 19, 2023 Spirituality and Abolition, a new book from the Abolition Journal (opens in a new tab) April 23, 2023 Williams: Harry Belafonte's bold and generous activism embodied the 'artist as citizen' (opens in a new tab) April 13, 2023 Little Richard Documentary In Theaters Friday April 21st (opens in a new tab) April 13, 2023 REPAIR Lab: Norfolk Community-Engaged Research with Kim Sudderth, Practitioner, and Kimberly Fields, UVA Politics April 11, 2023 Faculty members earn Guggenheim Fellowships to support music, filmmaking (opens in a new tab) April 3, 2023 National Park Service publishes two historical studies surfacing tragedy and resilience in Black recreation (opens in a new tab) March 20, 2023 Ten Years of Expanding the Reach of Language Instruction (opens in a new tab) February 22, 2023 Through a Black Girlhood Lens (opens in a new tab) February 14, 2023 ‘Beacon of Hope, Blueprint for Activism’: Sample Julian Bond’s Speeches Online (opens in a new tab) February 8, 2023 Deborah E. McDowell authored the foreward to The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison (opens in a new tab) February 6, 2023 The Forgotten Voices of Democracy Black Political Activism under Brazil’s Military Rule (opens in a new tab) February 2, 2023 Love Songs from Lonely Letters (opens in a new tab) January 29, 2023 Left of Black | Dr. Julius B. Fleming, Jr. on "Black Patience" and the Struggle for Civil Rights (opens in a new tab) January 18, 2023 As its only remaining elected officials depart, Haiti reaches a breaking point (opens in a new tab) January 13, 2023 Martin Luther King Day: The song that changed the US (opens in a new tab) December 7, 2022 National Mall Commissions 6 Artists for Monument Exhibition (opens in a new tab) October 27, 2022 Africa is Country: A new Zion (opens in a new tab) October 14, 2022 Cornel West encourages students to 'major in a courageous life.' (opens in a new tab) September 28, 2022 Anna Duensing, post-doctoral fellow, publishes op-ed in WashPo's "Made By History" blog (opens in a new tab) September 22, 2022 Spectral Grounds, Black Experimental Film September 1, 2022 Ashon Crawley is 2022 Mellon Fellow in Urban Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks (opens in a new tab) April 1, 2022 Woodson Institute welcomes seven new residential fellows into class of 2024 cohort (opens in a new tab) March 14, 2022 Sabrina Pendergrass quoted in NBC5 story "Fort Worth Among US Cities With Largest Growth in Black Population" (opens in a new tab) March 11, 2022 Ashon Crawley awarded a Crossroads Art Fellowship at Princeton University (opens in a new tab) March 2, 2022 Ashon Crawley named Visiting Artist at UPenn (opens in a new tab) February 16, 2022 Kevin Gaines quoted in Virginia Mercury article on Glen Youngkin's campaign rhetoric (opens in a new tab) February 12, 2022 Woodson Institute leaders emphasize importance of celebrating Black history beyond February (opens in a new tab) December 16, 2021 In Memorium: Julius Scott III (opens in a new tab) December 8, 2021 Woodson 40th Anniversary Highlighted in UVA Today (opens in a new tab) December 1, 2021 Pre-doctoral fellow Zalika Ibaorimi's textual essay and visual essay published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies (opens in a new tab) December 1, 2021 AAS Alumnus J.T. Roane co-authored an article the Black Agenda Report (opens in a new tab) December 1, 2021 AAS Alumna Niya Bates featured in UVA Today article (opens in a new tab) November 19, 2021 Deborah McDowell's introduction to Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing was also quoted in a New York Times article on the Netflix show "Passing" (opens in a new tab) November 15, 2021 Deborah McDowell featured in the inaugural edition of Amplify (opens in a new tab) November 15, 2021 Former fellow Vânia Penha Lopes publishes new book October 18, 2021 Kwame E. Otu awarded the Richard and Nancy Guerrant Global Health Equity Professorship (opens in a new tab) October 15, 2021 Ashon Crawley was one of eight recipients of an UNDO Fellowship by the UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art (opens in a new tab) October 15, 2021 Celeste Day Moore, 2014 fellowship cohort, published Soundscapes of Liberation from Duke University Press October 15, 2021 Kevin Gaines published in the Journal of Transnational American Studies October 12, 2021 Abraham Seda, Woodson pre-doctoral fellow, published an article in Black Perspectives (opens in a new tab) October 8, 2021 Marlene Daut wrote a review for Harper's Bazaar: Resurrecting a Lost Palace of Haiti (opens in a new tab) October 5, 2021 Marlene Daut on NPR's Planet Money (opens in a new tab) September 24, 2021 Marlene Daut publishes in Essence Magazine (opens in a new tab) September 15, 2021 Marlene Daut featured in Slate Magazine's Podcast A Word with Jason Johnson (opens in a new tab) September 15, 2021 Alexandria Smith, current Woodson post-doctoral fellow published an article in the Journal of Feminist Scholarship (opens in a new tab) August 20, 2021 Ashon Crawley published in the Washington Post (opens in a new tab) August 19, 2021 Marlene Daut provides expert analysis during Haiti's recent political upheaval (opens in a new tab) May 17, 2021 Ashon Crawley's art exhibition "Enunciated Life" reviewed by KCRW (opens in a new tab) May 15, 2021 Marlene Daut awarded 2021 Ford Foundation Fellowship (opens in a new tab) May 15, 2021 Ashon Crawley's book The Lonely Letters won the Lambda Literary Award (opens in a new tab) May 15, 2021 Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, 2014 fellowship cohort, published the award-winning book Becoming Human April 15, 2021 Jeffery Ahlman, 2011 fellowship cohort, published Kwame Nkrumah: Visions of Liberation April 15, 2021 Jenifer Barclay, 2011 fellowship cohort, published The Mark of Slavery from University of Illinois Press March 15, 2021 UVA and History Race, Property and Power (opens in a new tab) December 16, 2020 Faculty members awarded NEH Fellowships (opens in a new tab) December 16, 2020 $30 Million Investment Benefits STEM Research (opens in a new tab) October 29, 2020 "Silence is Not an Option" (opens in a new tab) October 27, 2020 Professor Kevin Gaines featured in Washington Post article (opens in a new tab) July 8, 2020 Faculty Spotlight: Kimberly Fields (opens in a new tab) May 1, 2020 Phenomenal Fellows: Woodson Fellows Bring International Prestige to Arts & Sciences (opens in a new tab) December 10, 2019 Former fellows finalists for 2019 the African Studies Association Book Prize (opens in a new tab) December 5, 2019 2019 Norman Foerster Prize (opens in a new tab) December 1, 2019 In Memoriam: Teju Olaniyan (opens in a new tab) November 25, 2019 Black Perspectives Blog (opens in a new tab) November 6, 2019 Marlene Daut featured in the TED-Ed video "The First and Last King of Haiti" (opens in a new tab) November 3, 2019 Ashon Crawley awarded the Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award by the American Musicological Society (opens in a new tab) October 23, 2019 Ashon Crawley published an opinion piece for NPR Music (opens in a new tab) October 5, 2019 Lindsey Jones, former Woodson fellow, received the 2019 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize (opens in a new tab) September 26, 2019 Woodson Fellow Nzingha Kendall received 2020 UNDO Fellowship at UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art (opens in a new tab) September 15, 2019 Andrew Kahrl won Connecticut Book Award for best non-fiction book from the Connecticut Center for the Book (opens in a new tab) August 7, 2019 Deborah McDowell Lauds Powerful Prose of her Friend, Toni Morrison (opens in a new tab) July 28, 2019 Marlene Daut publishes “Becoming Full Professor While Black” in the Chronicle of Higher Education (opens in a new tab) July 17, 2019 In Memoriam: Reginald Butler, Former Woodson Director (opens in a new tab) June 22, 2019 New York Times: "Black People's Land Was Stolen" by Andrew Kahrl (opens in a new tab) April 2, 2019 Marlene Daut awarded 2019 American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship (opens in a new tab) December 7, 2018 Former Post-Doctoral Fellow, Deirdre Cooper Owens joins the Department of History at University of Nebraska-Lincoln! October 18, 2018 Historian Kevin Gaines is UVA's First Julian Bond Professor (opens in a new tab) October 9, 2018 Marlene Daut publishes article in Garnet News (opens in a new tab) September 13, 2018 New York Times: "Hurricane Florence and the Displacement of African-Americans along the Carolina Coast" (opens in a new tab) August 29, 2018 UVA Today: 'Trailblazer' Deborah McDowell Chosen for Zintl Leadership Award (opens in a new tab) August 13, 2018 Inside A&S: "Volunteers Gather in Classrooms and Coffeeshops to Transcribe Julian Bond’s Work" (opens in a new tab) August 1, 2018 The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: "University of Virginia to Launch a Crowdsourced Transcription Effort of Julian Bond’s Papers" (opens in a new tab) July 19, 2018 UVA Today: You Can Help Put Julian Bond's Papers in an Online Archive (opens in a new tab) April 30, 2018 Talitha LeFlouria wins prestigious Carnegie Fellowship (opens in a new tab) April 27, 2018 Marlene L. Daut launches digital resource for early 19th century Haiti (opens in a new tab) April 27, 2018 Julius Fleming named the 2018 Nancy Weiss Malkiel Scholar, by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation April 25, 2018 Telisha Dionne Bailey awarded the 2018 Medgar and Myrlie Evers Research Scholarship (opens in a new tab) April 20, 2018 Kwame E. Otu awarded a 2018 National Humanities Center Fellowship April 14, 2018 Woodson Institute Series Fulfills Students' 'Thirst' for Civil Rights History (opens in a new tab) April 13, 2018 Deborah E. McDowell receives Award for Leadership Excellence April 1, 2018 Ashon Crawley awarded Fellowship from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music March 23, 2018 CGWI Project "Illusion of Progress" Features at Workshop with SPLC (opens in a new tab) February 8, 2018 Woodson Institute's 'August in Perspective: Creative Responses' Calls to Body and Soul (opens in a new tab) December 11, 2017 News on Fellows: Former Fellow Tera W. Hunter writes on Confederate Memorialization (opens in a new tab) October 9, 2017 The Difference a Department Makes: Woodson Institute Determines its Destiny (opens in a new tab) September 12, 2017 Professor Andrew Kahrl published article in The Washington Post (opens in a new tab) August 18, 2017 News on Fellows: Lindsay Jones Publishes Piece on White Nationalism in Teen Vogue (opens in a new tab) July 28, 2017 Professor Andrew Kahrl featured in UVA Today (opens in a new tab) March 20, 2017 News on Fellows: Lyndsey Beutin (Pre-Doc) publishes article in Open Democracy (opens in a new tab) March 9, 2017 News on Fellows: Tony Perry (Pre-Doc) published an article in Slavery & Abolition (opens in a new tab) October 31, 2016 Professor Talitha Leflouria "Chained in Silence: A History of Black Women and Convict Labor" Lecture (opens in a new tab) May 26, 2016 Woodson Fellowship Pipeline Produces Strong Additions to UVA Faculty (opens in a new tab) April 14, 2016 News on Fellows: Congratulations Post-Doc Talitha LeFlouria! October 20, 2015 News on Fellows: Congratulations Post-Doc Fellow Talitha LeFlouria! (opens in a new tab) August 1, 2015 Engaging Race: Forum on Race, Citizenship and Social Justice (opens in a new tab) September 29, 2014 'Fearless' Poet Claudia Rankine to read, discuss events in Ferguson (opens in a new tab) October 7, 2013 Black Studies and Digital Humanities will be focus of panel discussion (opens in a new tab) June 1, 2013 'Juneteenth' to be commemorated with film screening (opens in a new tab) April 30, 2013 Forum Examines Lower Numbers of Black Students at UVA (opens in a new tab) February 13, 2013 Spend an evening with Poet Nikki Giovanni Feb. 13 (opens in a new tab) November 5, 2012 "The Haunted and the Hunted:" A Flash Seminar on Stop-and-Frisk (opens in a new tab) October 25, 2012 New York Times Journalist Charles M. Blow to speak at UVA (opens in a new tab) September 10, 2012 Woodson Institute marks 75 years of "Their Eyes were Watching God" (opens in a new tab) May 8, 2012 Class of 2012: Woodson Fellow Z'etoile Imma Offers a Vision of African Men Beyond Violence (opens in a new tab) March 1, 2012 Valerie Cooper's New Book Looks at Pioneer Abolitionist's use of the Bible (opens in a new tab) January 11, 2012 Symposium on National Museum of African American History and Culture to be held at UVA (opens in a new tab) December 7, 2011 Woodson Fellowships Making Widespread Impact on the Academy (opens in a new tab) December 6, 2011 Two Teams Garner First UVA Arts in Action Project Grants (opens in a new tab) October 21, 2011 Women's Theater Collective, the Saartjie Project to Perform at UVA (opens in a new tab) October 19, 2011 Filmmaker to discuss Twiga Stars: Tanzania's Soccer Sisters (opens in a new tab) October 10, 2011 National Program Brings Diverse Faculty Fellows to Arts & Sciences (opens in a new tab) September 13, 2011 Panel will discuss 'politics of the debt ceiling crisis' (opens in a new tab) April 11, 2011 Symposium Traces History of African American Studies at the University (opens in a new tab) April 1, 2011 UVA Symposium will examine Haiti since 2010 Earthquake (opens in a new tab) March 31, 2011 Out of the Shadows (opens in a new tab) March 30, 2011 30th Anniversary Symposium will explore 'African American and African Studies: At Work in the World" (opens in a new tab) March 28, 2011 Ella Baker Day Symposium at UVA (opens in a new tab) March 2, 2011 Caribbean Writer Maryse Conde to visit UVA (opens in a new tab) February 4, 2011 Feb 10 Talk on African American Women in the Criminal Justice System (opens in a new tab) September 16, 2010 UVA Panel will pay Respect to Aretha Franklin on Oct. 1 (opens in a new tab) September 8, 2010 Activist to Talk about Prison Reform (opens in a new tab) May 4, 2010 Visiting Woodson Professors Bring Diverse Perspectives (opens in a new tab) October 19, 2009 UVA's Woodson Institute to hold symposium on the NAACP (opens in a new tab) April 13, 2009 Activist Angela Davis to headline conference on Prison populations, Spend a week in residence (opens in a new tab) December 3, 2008 How a Summer Internship Helped Me Find My Calling (opens in a new tab) November 13, 2008 Art Isn't Just the Pursuit of Beauty, According to Bill T. Jones (opens in a new tab) October 8, 2008 Woodson Institute's Influence Transcends UVA (opens in a new tab) September 3, 2008 The Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, civil rights activist to speak at UVA (opens in a new tab) April 23, 2008 Deborah E. McDowell Named Carter G. Woodson Institute Director at the University of Virginia (opens in a new tab) April 3, 2008 CGWI Celebrates Centennial of Richard Wright's Birth (opens in a new tab) February 22, 2008 Woodson Fellows to Give Talks This Spring (opens in a new tab) April 19, 2007 UVA's Carter G. Woodson Institute Celebrating its 25th Anniversary (opens in a new tab)
September 5, 2025 Andrew Kahrl's book "The Black Tax" received the Lizabeth Cohen Prize for Best Book on Cities and Political Power (opens in a new tab)
March 28, 2025 Martin Luther King, Jr. III visited the Introduction to African American Studies course taught by Nemata Blyden
March 24, 2025 Andrew Kahrl's book The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (U. Chicago Press, 2024) was reviewed in Forbes "Is The ‘Predatory’ Property Tax An Instrument Of Oppression?" (opens in a new tab)
March 7, 2025 Ashleigh Wade delivered the opening keynote at the University of Kentucky’s 30th Black Women’s Conference, which took place March 7-8. The conference theme for this year was: “We Are the Culture: A Symposium on Black Girls and Girlhood
March 7, 2025 Robin Means Coleman's new book The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Films was published in March 2025 with Oxford University Press. This is Professor Coleman's third book in two years (opens in a new tab)
March 1, 2025 Woodson faculty members Nemata Blyden and Sabrina Pendergrass, featured on PBS' "Great Migrations" Series (2025) (opens in a new tab)
February 17, 2025 Registration OPEN for the New Directions in Black Disabilities Conference (opens in a new tab)
February 17, 2025 Andrew Kahrl's book The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (U. Chicago Press, 2024) has been named a finalist in the History category for the LA Times Book Prize (opens in a new tab)
February 6, 2025 Fatima Siwaju a panelist at an event hosted by The Yale Ethnography Hub on Ethnography and Citizenship: Global and Local Perspectives
February 3, 2025 Andrew Kahrl delivered the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture at Vanderbilt Law School in which he discussed his recent book The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America (opens in a new tab)
January 31, 2025 Nemata Blyden to give keynote address for the academic conference connected to the 2025 Zora! Festival (opens in a new tab)
January 29, 2025 Kimberly Fields published an article in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Among the co-authors are two recent UVA Graduate students who were former students in her class and Repair Lab research assistants (opens in a new tab)
January 17, 2025 Kimberly Fields awarded a Pioneering Ideas Grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for her project The Future of Evidence: Low-Cost Sensing, Local Knowledge, and Evidence to Drive Change Around Airborne Coal Dust
January 17, 2025 Fatima Siwaju's project entitled “Never Surrender Yet: Narratives of Resistance and Resilience in Afro-Trinidadian Islam” has been published with the support of the Crossroads Project on Black Religious Histories, Communities, and Cultures (opens in a new tab)
January 17, 2025 Naseemah Mohamed traveled to Molokai with Dr. Robin Garcia, student Sophia Gibby, and alumna Grace Gray, funded by the UVA Provost’s Office. Their collaboration with Ho’aka Mana, a Native Hawaiian-led organization, explored cultural revitalization
January 17, 2025 Martin Luther King, Jr.'s eldest son Martin Luther King, III visited Nemata Blyden's Introduction to African American and African Studies course last semester. Blyden introduced King to the class of nearly 120 students
January 13, 2025 Former Woodson faculty member Marlene Daut's forthcoming monograph (January 2025) The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe was reviewed in The American Scholar (opens in a new tab)
December 24, 2024 Kimberly Fields published an article in the Environmental Justice Journal: "Practicing Repair:Advancing Community-Based Solutions on Coal Dust Pollution in Hampton Roads, Virginia through a Practitioner-in-Residence Program" (opens in a new tab)
December 17, 2024 Woodson fellows, students, faculty and staff capped off another semester by gathering for a family-style dinner with a holiday playlist and games
December 4, 2024 Andrew Kahrl's book The Black Tax was reviewed in Public Books as part of their series on Global Black History: "The Poverty of Homeownership" (opens in a new tab)
December 4, 2024 Kimberly Fields to deliver talk at Ivy Creek Foundation - "Shaping Justice: The Relationship Between Grassroots Activism, Public Policymaking Processes, Institutions and Environmental Justice Efforts in the Mid-Atlantic Region" (opens in a new tab)
December 3, 2024 Ashleigh Wade received a TYDE Seed Grant to support developing a non-profit social media platform for Black youth (opens in a new tab)
November 4, 2024 Nemata Blyden gave a virtual talk at Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art entitled "African Immigrants in America"
October 31, 2024 The Woodson hosted a festive Fall event last month "Frights and Bites" with Halloween treats and spooky movies
October 24, 2024 Nemata Blyden moderated a panel discussion following a film screening of Brief and Tender Light, sponsored by the International Studies Office
October 24, 2024 Book Talk: Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery Ana Lucia Arujo in conversation with Nemata Blyden (opens in a new tab)
October 22, 2024 Lisa Shutt participated in an event with UVA's Lifetime Learning at Ivy Creek Natural Area & Historic River View Farm (opens in a new tab)
October 7, 2024 Jennifer C. Nash gave a talk on UVA Grounds as part of a co-sponsered event with the Department of English
October 4, 2024 Ashon Crawley has been appointed the Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at Duke and UNC, Chapel Hill (opens in a new tab)
October 1, 2024 Kevin Gaines featured at a local event for Banned Books Week. He lead a discussion of James Baldwin's "My Dungeon Shook" alongside Dr. Gaila Sims: "No Book Left Behind: A Celebration of Our Freedom to Read (opens in a new tab)
September 25, 2024 Former Woodson Faculty member Marlene Daut quoted in an article in The Progressive about misinformation regarding Haitian immigrants in Ohio (opens in a new tab)
September 24, 2024 Nemata Blyden will be on a panel, "David Harrington & Friends: A Conversation about Creating Music for Kronos Quartet at the Library of Congress (opens in a new tab)
September 4, 2024 Andrew Kahrl quoted in a New York Times article "In New Orleans, a ‘Black Beach’ Is Being Rescued From the Ruins" which also features a National Parks Service study on which he was co-PI (opens in a new tab)
September 3, 2024 Robert Trent Vinson published an article in the latest issue of the journal Safundi: "Mandela and MK: situating South African history in the Black Radical Tradition" (opens in a new tab)
August 27, 2024 Welcoming 2024-2025 Interim Leadership, Previewing Fall 2024 Courses (opens in a new tab)
August 1, 2024 Woodson Fellows Ava Purkiss (pre-doctoral fellow, 2016) Eshe Shirley, (post-doctoral fellow, 2024), served as co-authors on a piece in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: "Ambivalence as a Feminist Project (opens in a new tab)
June 17, 2024 Kevin Gaines quoted in article about passing of Bernice Johnson Reagon, a founder of The Freedom Singers and Sweet Honey in the Rock (opens in a new tab)
May 31, 2024 Nema Blyden publishes article in The Conversation Stevie Wonder’s Ghanaian citizenship reflects long-standing links between African Americans and the continent (opens in a new tab)
May 25, 2024 Kevin Gaines interviewed in a story for PRX's The World: Stevie Wonder celebrates new Ghanaian citizenship (opens in a new tab)
May 13, 2024 Nemata Blyden's visit to St. Eustatius featured in local news coverage due to her connections to the famous pan-Africanist Edward Wilmot Blyden (opens in a new tab)
May 5, 2024 Amber Henry, Woodson post-doctoral fellow, won 1st place in the "Lightning Talk" competition at 2024 Post-Doctoral Research Symposium
May 5, 2024 Robert Trent Vinson published an article in the latest issue of Moya Magazine, "The Inescapable Single Garment of Destiny" (opens in a new tab)
May 4, 2024 People want to breathe better air in Hampton Roads, Virginia. How Kim Fields and the Repair Lab are working with community members to seek environmental justice for the decades of coal dust that they’ve inhaled. (opens in a new tab)
April 24, 2024 Tax History Matters: A Q&A with Professor Andrew Kahrl, Author of ‘The Black Tax’ (opens in a new tab)
April 22, 2024 The Black Tax: why have African Americans been cheated by the system for so long? (opens in a new tab)
April 17, 2024 Laura E. Helton (pre-doctoral fellow, 2015) published her first book, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History, as part of the Black Lives in the Diaspora Series, a joint project of Columbia University Press (opens in a new tab)
April 11, 2024 Andrew Kahrl guest essay published in The New York Times - "It’s Time to End the Quiet Cruelty of Property Taxes" (opens in a new tab)
April 6, 2024 ‘The Biggest Honor of My Academic Career’: Endowed Professors Celebrated (opens in a new tab)
April 5, 2024 Nemata Blyden was interviewed for the podcast Articles of Interest (opens in a new tab)
March 11, 2024 Ta-Nehisi Coates Speaks at UVA on the Future of Reparations and the Power of Writing (opens in a new tab)
January 30, 2024 Lisa Shutt awarded Jefferson Trust grant for "Engaging Local Histories: River View Farm,
January 19, 2024 Julie Saville, historian who made enormous impact on the study of slavery, 1947-2023
November 9, 2023 Anna Duensing published What We Talk About When We Talk About Fascism" in History & Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History (opens in a new tab)
October 22, 2023 Kevin Gaines featured on a panel discussion at the Miller Center on the future of affirmative action (opens in a new tab)
October 13, 2023 Olivia Polk (pre-doctoral fellow) presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art during an event co-hosted by the arts organization Visual AIDS. (opens in a new tab)
October 7, 2023 Frances Bell (pre-doctoral fellow) presented on a panel, titled "Contested Freedoms, Contested Sovereignties in the Haitian Revolutionary Atlantic"
October 6, 2023 Amber M. Henry (post-doctoral fellow) presented at the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on "Afrodescendant Citizenship in Latin America: Mobilization, Contestation, and Change" (opens in a new tab)
September 5, 2023 Jasper Conner published in Fall special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly focused on race and colonization
August 22, 2023 Two Woodson AAS majors earn the honor of becoming lawn residents (opens in a new tab)
August 16, 2023 Beyond Granite: Pulling Together - Ashon Crawley's creates exhibition entitled HOMEGOING on the U.S. National Mall (opens in a new tab)
August 12, 2023 Move over, monuments: The Mall gets first curated multi-artist exhibit (opens in a new tab)
August 3, 2023 ASWAD's 11th Biennial Conference takes place at the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana
August 3, 2023 Beyond Granite: Pulling Together stages six installations on the National Mall that recall underrepresented American histories (opens in a new tab)
August 2, 2023 Alexandria Smith published an essay on She's Gotta Have It in the journal Cultural Studies
July 15, 2023 In Virginia, reopening a 125-year-old case rights a historical injustice (opens in a new tab)
July 5, 2023 ‘Thanks for visiting Florida’: one Black family’s road trip to a ‘hostile’ tourist trap (opens in a new tab)
June 7, 2023 When Private Beaches Served as a Refuge for the Chesapeake Bay’s Black Elite (opens in a new tab)
April 23, 2023 Williams: Harry Belafonte's bold and generous activism embodied the 'artist as citizen' (opens in a new tab)
April 13, 2023 REPAIR Lab: Norfolk Community-Engaged Research with Kim Sudderth, Practitioner, and Kimberly Fields, UVA Politics
April 11, 2023 Faculty members earn Guggenheim Fellowships to support music, filmmaking (opens in a new tab)
April 3, 2023 National Park Service publishes two historical studies surfacing tragedy and resilience in Black recreation (opens in a new tab)
February 14, 2023 ‘Beacon of Hope, Blueprint for Activism’: Sample Julian Bond’s Speeches Online (opens in a new tab)
February 8, 2023 Deborah E. McDowell authored the foreward to The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison (opens in a new tab)
February 6, 2023 The Forgotten Voices of Democracy Black Political Activism under Brazil’s Military Rule (opens in a new tab)
January 29, 2023 Left of Black | Dr. Julius B. Fleming, Jr. on "Black Patience" and the Struggle for Civil Rights (opens in a new tab)
January 18, 2023 As its only remaining elected officials depart, Haiti reaches a breaking point (opens in a new tab)
October 14, 2022 Cornel West encourages students to 'major in a courageous life.' (opens in a new tab)
September 28, 2022 Anna Duensing, post-doctoral fellow, publishes op-ed in WashPo's "Made By History" blog (opens in a new tab)
September 1, 2022 Ashon Crawley is 2022 Mellon Fellow in Urban Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks (opens in a new tab)
April 1, 2022 Woodson Institute welcomes seven new residential fellows into class of 2024 cohort (opens in a new tab)
March 14, 2022 Sabrina Pendergrass quoted in NBC5 story "Fort Worth Among US Cities With Largest Growth in Black Population" (opens in a new tab)
March 11, 2022 Ashon Crawley awarded a Crossroads Art Fellowship at Princeton University (opens in a new tab)
February 16, 2022 Kevin Gaines quoted in Virginia Mercury article on Glen Youngkin's campaign rhetoric (opens in a new tab)
February 12, 2022 Woodson Institute leaders emphasize importance of celebrating Black history beyond February (opens in a new tab)
December 1, 2021 Pre-doctoral fellow Zalika Ibaorimi's textual essay and visual essay published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies (opens in a new tab)
December 1, 2021 AAS Alumnus J.T. Roane co-authored an article the Black Agenda Report (opens in a new tab)
November 19, 2021 Deborah McDowell's introduction to Nella Larsen's Quicksand and Passing was also quoted in a New York Times article on the Netflix show "Passing" (opens in a new tab)
October 18, 2021 Kwame E. Otu awarded the Richard and Nancy Guerrant Global Health Equity Professorship (opens in a new tab)
October 15, 2021 Ashon Crawley was one of eight recipients of an UNDO Fellowship by the UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art (opens in a new tab)
October 15, 2021 Celeste Day Moore, 2014 fellowship cohort, published Soundscapes of Liberation from Duke University Press
October 12, 2021 Abraham Seda, Woodson pre-doctoral fellow, published an article in Black Perspectives (opens in a new tab)
October 8, 2021 Marlene Daut wrote a review for Harper's Bazaar: Resurrecting a Lost Palace of Haiti (opens in a new tab)
September 15, 2021 Marlene Daut featured in Slate Magazine's Podcast A Word with Jason Johnson (opens in a new tab)
September 15, 2021 Alexandria Smith, current Woodson post-doctoral fellow published an article in the Journal of Feminist Scholarship (opens in a new tab)
August 19, 2021 Marlene Daut provides expert analysis during Haiti's recent political upheaval (opens in a new tab)
May 15, 2021 Ashon Crawley's book The Lonely Letters won the Lambda Literary Award (opens in a new tab)
May 15, 2021 Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, 2014 fellowship cohort, published the award-winning book Becoming Human
April 15, 2021 Jeffery Ahlman, 2011 fellowship cohort, published Kwame Nkrumah: Visions of Liberation
April 15, 2021 Jenifer Barclay, 2011 fellowship cohort, published The Mark of Slavery from University of Illinois Press
May 1, 2020 Phenomenal Fellows: Woodson Fellows Bring International Prestige to Arts & Sciences (opens in a new tab)
December 10, 2019 Former fellows finalists for 2019 the African Studies Association Book Prize (opens in a new tab)
November 6, 2019 Marlene Daut featured in the TED-Ed video "The First and Last King of Haiti" (opens in a new tab)
November 3, 2019 Ashon Crawley awarded the Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award by the American Musicological Society (opens in a new tab)
October 5, 2019 Lindsey Jones, former Woodson fellow, received the 2019 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize (opens in a new tab)
September 26, 2019 Woodson Fellow Nzingha Kendall received 2020 UNDO Fellowship at UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art (opens in a new tab)
September 15, 2019 Andrew Kahrl won Connecticut Book Award for best non-fiction book from the Connecticut Center for the Book (opens in a new tab)
August 7, 2019 Deborah McDowell Lauds Powerful Prose of her Friend, Toni Morrison (opens in a new tab)
July 28, 2019 Marlene Daut publishes “Becoming Full Professor While Black” in the Chronicle of Higher Education (opens in a new tab)
April 2, 2019 Marlene Daut awarded 2019 American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship (opens in a new tab)
December 7, 2018 Former Post-Doctoral Fellow, Deirdre Cooper Owens joins the Department of History at University of Nebraska-Lincoln!
September 13, 2018 New York Times: "Hurricane Florence and the Displacement of African-Americans along the Carolina Coast" (opens in a new tab)
August 29, 2018 UVA Today: 'Trailblazer' Deborah McDowell Chosen for Zintl Leadership Award (opens in a new tab)
August 13, 2018 Inside A&S: "Volunteers Gather in Classrooms and Coffeeshops to Transcribe Julian Bond’s Work" (opens in a new tab)
August 1, 2018 The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: "University of Virginia to Launch a Crowdsourced Transcription Effort of Julian Bond’s Papers" (opens in a new tab)
July 19, 2018 UVA Today: You Can Help Put Julian Bond's Papers in an Online Archive (opens in a new tab)
April 27, 2018 Marlene L. Daut launches digital resource for early 19th century Haiti (opens in a new tab)
April 27, 2018 Julius Fleming named the 2018 Nancy Weiss Malkiel Scholar, by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
April 25, 2018 Telisha Dionne Bailey awarded the 2018 Medgar and Myrlie Evers Research Scholarship (opens in a new tab)
April 14, 2018 Woodson Institute Series Fulfills Students' 'Thirst' for Civil Rights History (opens in a new tab)
March 23, 2018 CGWI Project "Illusion of Progress" Features at Workshop with SPLC (opens in a new tab)
February 8, 2018 Woodson Institute's 'August in Perspective: Creative Responses' Calls to Body and Soul (opens in a new tab)
December 11, 2017 News on Fellows: Former Fellow Tera W. Hunter writes on Confederate Memorialization (opens in a new tab)
October 9, 2017 The Difference a Department Makes: Woodson Institute Determines its Destiny (opens in a new tab)
September 12, 2017 Professor Andrew Kahrl published article in The Washington Post (opens in a new tab)
August 18, 2017 News on Fellows: Lindsay Jones Publishes Piece on White Nationalism in Teen Vogue (opens in a new tab)
March 20, 2017 News on Fellows: Lyndsey Beutin (Pre-Doc) publishes article in Open Democracy (opens in a new tab)
March 9, 2017 News on Fellows: Tony Perry (Pre-Doc) published an article in Slavery & Abolition (opens in a new tab)
October 31, 2016 Professor Talitha Leflouria "Chained in Silence: A History of Black Women and Convict Labor" Lecture (opens in a new tab)
May 26, 2016 Woodson Fellowship Pipeline Produces Strong Additions to UVA Faculty (opens in a new tab)
October 20, 2015 News on Fellows: Congratulations Post-Doc Fellow Talitha LeFlouria! (opens in a new tab)
September 29, 2014 'Fearless' Poet Claudia Rankine to read, discuss events in Ferguson (opens in a new tab)
October 7, 2013 Black Studies and Digital Humanities will be focus of panel discussion (opens in a new tab)
November 5, 2012 "The Haunted and the Hunted:" A Flash Seminar on Stop-and-Frisk (opens in a new tab)
September 10, 2012 Woodson Institute marks 75 years of "Their Eyes were Watching God" (opens in a new tab)
May 8, 2012 Class of 2012: Woodson Fellow Z'etoile Imma Offers a Vision of African Men Beyond Violence (opens in a new tab)
March 1, 2012 Valerie Cooper's New Book Looks at Pioneer Abolitionist's use of the Bible (opens in a new tab)
January 11, 2012 Symposium on National Museum of African American History and Culture to be held at UVA (opens in a new tab)
October 21, 2011 Women's Theater Collective, the Saartjie Project to Perform at UVA (opens in a new tab)
October 10, 2011 National Program Brings Diverse Faculty Fellows to Arts & Sciences (opens in a new tab)
April 11, 2011 Symposium Traces History of African American Studies at the University (opens in a new tab)
March 30, 2011 30th Anniversary Symposium will explore 'African American and African Studies: At Work in the World" (opens in a new tab)
February 4, 2011 Feb 10 Talk on African American Women in the Criminal Justice System (opens in a new tab)
April 13, 2009 Activist Angela Davis to headline conference on Prison populations, Spend a week in residence (opens in a new tab)
November 13, 2008 Art Isn't Just the Pursuit of Beauty, According to Bill T. Jones (opens in a new tab)
September 3, 2008 The Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, civil rights activist to speak at UVA (opens in a new tab)
April 23, 2008 Deborah E. McDowell Named Carter G. Woodson Institute Director at the University of Virginia (opens in a new tab)
April 19, 2007 UVA's Carter G. Woodson Institute Celebrating its 25th Anniversary (opens in a new tab)
