March 27, 2026 Woodson Faculty members Alisha Gaines and Ashon Crawley featured on The Black Studies podcast March 25, 2026 Robert Trent Vinson presented at Georgetown University's African Studies Colloquium Series March 15, 2026 Robert Trent Vinson accepted an invitation to serve a two-year term on the Advisory Board for Getting Word: The African American History department at Monticello March 13, 2026 Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger honors Carter G. Woodson Institute at Black History Month Reception March 8, 2026 Kevin Gaines gave the 2025-26 annual lecture of the Global Cultures Institute at King's College, London March 7, 2026 Robert Trent Vinson presented on a panel during the 2026 Black Family History Symposium March 6, 2026 The Carter G. Woodson Institute co-sponsored a recent event about the state of African American and African Studies departments across the nation March 2, 2026 Nemata Blyden gave a lecture as part of the 2025-2026 Cambridge American History Seminar at the University of Cambridge February 27, 2026 Robert Trent Vinson quoted in St. Louis Public Radio's story about Black History Month February 27, 2026 The Woodson featured in a profile in the Cavalier Daily February 27, 2026 The Woodson's Black History Month event series featured in the Cavalier Daily February 26, 2026 Robert Trent Vinson's Black History Month lecture was featured in a Cavalier Daily February 26, 2026 Oludamini Ogunnaike featured in a Q&A with UVA Today February 19, 2026 Andrew Kahrl was awarded the Best Book in Urban Affairs Award for his book The Black Tax February 11, 2026 Five (5) Woodson fellows hosted a joint-workshop at JMU January 30, 2026 Ashleigh Wade received a Dean's Research Fellow award for the academic years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 January 22, 2026 Ashleigh Greene Wade and Timeka N. Tounsel (University of Washington) launched a new podcast called "Lost Credits" January 12, 2026 Robert Trent Vinson presented at an event sponsored by WNYC at The Apollo theater in Harlem, NYC for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day January 9, 2026 Andrew Kahrl's book The Black Tax received The Order of the Coif Book Award for best book in legal scholarship for 2025 from the American Association of Law Schools January 2, 2026 Robert Trent Vinson quoted in article by the Associated Press January 1, 2026 Jovanté Anderson, current Woodson pre-doctoral fellow, published an article in GLQ January 1, 2026 Njelle Hamilton's course "The Science of Time Travel" featured in a Cavalier Daily December 2, 2025 Naseemah Mohamed's course "Tracing Your Genealogy" was profiled in a UVA Today article November 18, 2025 Nemata Blyden was interviewed in a "Faculty Spotlight" for UVA Northern Virginia November 18, 2025 Guilherme Lemos, Woodson post-doctoral fellow, organized an event focused on capoeira November 18, 2025 Woodson faculty, fellows, and fellowship alumni at African Studies Conference (ASA) November 14, 2025 Joanna Evans, current Woodson post-doctoral fellow, presented her research at e-flux in New York November 8, 2025 Andrew Kahrl gave the keynote address at the 2025 National Land Bank Network Summit in Detroit, Michigan November 7, 2025 Kaché Claytor, Woodson Post-Doctoral Fellow, was a panelist during a film screening of "Ancestral Clouds, Ancestral Claims." November 6, 2025 Nemata Blyden was a panelist on a round table for the University of Bayreuth on Global African Feminisms in/and the Contemporary Diaspora October 15, 2025 Ashon Crawley publishes piece on D'Angelo September 29, 2025 Ashleigh Greene Wade was interviewed on New Books in African American Studies podcast September 29, 2025 Nemata Blyden was awarded a fellowship at the Bogliasco Center. September 8, 2025 Guy Mount, former Woodson Post-Doctoral Fellow (cohort of 2025) was awarded the Richards Prize for article of the year in the Journal of the Civil War Era September 5, 2025 Andrew Kahrl's book "The Black Tax" received the Lizabeth Cohen Prize for Best Book on Cities and Political Power August 18, 2025 The Julian Bond Papers Project featured in A&S' inaugural annual report for research August 5, 2025 Woodson Staff Debbie Best and Randy Swift were recognized at the Academic Service Awards reception hosted for longtime UVA employees July 3, 2025 Blyden keynote May 19, 2025 Fatima Siwaju creates short film "In the Shadow of Malcolm X" May 15, 2025 Karhl published in Jacobin Magazine May 13, 2025 Crawley interviewed on performance art May 13, 2025 Robin Means Coleman on Ryan Coogler’s "Sinners" May 7, 2025 Nicole Mitchell Gantt, faculty affiliate, inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 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?" 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 March 1, 2025 Woodson faculty members Nemata Blyden and Sabrina Pendergrass, featured on PBS' "Great Migrations" Series (2025) February 17, 2025 Registration OPEN for the New Directions in Black Disabilities Conference 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 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 January 31, 2025 Nemata Blyden to give keynote address for the academic conference connected to the 2025 Zora! Festival 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 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 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 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" 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" 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" December 3, 2024 Ashleigh Wade received a TYDE Seed Grant to support developing a non-profit social media platform for Black youth 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 October 22, 2024 Lisa Shutt participated in an event with UVA's Lifetime Learning at Ivy Creek Natural Area & Historic River View Farm 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 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 September 25, 2024 Former Woodson Faculty member Marlene Daut quoted in an article in The Progressive about misinformation regarding Haitian immigrants in Ohio 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 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 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" August 27, 2024 Welcoming 2024-2025 Interim Leadership, Previewing Fall 2024 Courses 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 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 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 May 25, 2024 Kevin Gaines interviewed in a story for PRX's The World: Stevie Wonder celebrates new Ghanaian citizenship 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 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" 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. April 26, 2024 Andrew Kahrl Features in NYT article "An Enduring Race Tax" April 24, 2024 Tax History Matters: A Q&A with Professor Andrew Kahrl, Author of ‘The Black Tax’ April 22, 2024 The Black Tax: why have African Americans been cheated by the system for so long? 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 April 11, 2024 Andrew Kahrl guest essay published in The New York Times - "It’s Time to End the Quiet Cruelty of Property Taxes" April 6, 2024 ‘The Biggest Honor of My Academic Career’: Endowed Professors Celebrated April 5, 2024 Nemata Blyden was interviewed for the podcast Articles of Interest March 14, 2024 Andrew Kahrl was quoted in The Christian Science Monitor March 11, 2024 Ta-Nehisi Coates Speaks at UVA on the Future of Reparations and the Power of Writing February 23, 2024 They Learn Swahili. The Community Reaps the Rewards February 7, 2024 Kevin Gaines was appointed to the "Committee on Institutional Statements" February 5, 2024 Black Girl Autopoetics was featured in Ms. Magazine 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 October 22, 2023 Kevin Gaines featured on a panel discussion at the Miller Center on the future of affirmative action October 13, 2023 Mike Hollins (AAS CLAS 23') Featured in UVAToday 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. 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" 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 August 16, 2023 Beyond Granite: Pulling Together - Ashon Crawley's creates exhibition entitled HOMEGOING on the U.S. National Mall August 12, 2023 Move over, monuments: The Mall gets first curated multi-artist exhibit 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 August 3, 2023 African Diaspora conference opens in Accra 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 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 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 June 7, 2023 When Private Beaches Served as a Refuge for the Chesapeake Bay’s Black Elite May 19, 2023 Spirituality and Abolition, a new book from the Abolition Journal April 23, 2023 Williams: Harry Belafonte's bold and generous activism embodied the 'artist as citizen' April 13, 2023 Little Richard Documentary In Theaters Friday April 21st 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 April 3, 2023 National Park Service publishes two historical studies surfacing tragedy and resilience in Black recreation March 20, 2023 Ten Years of Expanding the Reach of Language Instruction February 22, 2023 Through a Black Girlhood Lens February 14, 2023 ‘Beacon of Hope, Blueprint for Activism’: Sample Julian Bond’s Speeches Online February 8, 2023 Deborah E. McDowell authored the foreward to The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison February 6, 2023 The Forgotten Voices of Democracy Black Political Activism under Brazil’s Military Rule February 2, 2023 Love Songs from Lonely Letters January 29, 2023 Left of Black | Dr. Julius B. Fleming, Jr. on "Black Patience" and the Struggle for Civil Rights January 18, 2023 As its only remaining elected officials depart, Haiti reaches a breaking point January 13, 2023 Martin Luther King Day: The song that changed the US December 7, 2022 National Mall Commissions 6 Artists for Monument Exhibition October 27, 2022 Africa is Country: A new Zion October 14, 2022 Cornel West encourages students to 'major in a courageous life.' September 28, 2022 Anna Duensing, post-doctoral fellow, publishes op-ed in WashPo's "Made By History" blog September 22, 2022 Spectral Grounds, Black Experimental Film September 1, 2022 Ashon Crawley is 2022 Mellon Fellow in Urban Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks April 1, 2022 Woodson Institute welcomes seven new residential fellows into class of 2024 cohort March 14, 2022 Sabrina Pendergrass quoted in NBC5 story "Fort Worth Among US Cities With Largest Growth in Black Population" March 11, 2022 Ashon Crawley awarded a Crossroads Art Fellowship at Princeton University March 2, 2022 Ashon Crawley named Visiting Artist at UPenn February 16, 2022 Kevin Gaines quoted in Virginia Mercury article on Glen Youngkin's campaign rhetoric February 12, 2022 Woodson Institute leaders emphasize importance of celebrating Black history beyond February December 16, 2021 In Memorium: Julius Scott III December 8, 2021 Woodson 40th Anniversary Highlighted in UVA Today December 1, 2021 Pre-doctoral fellow Zalika Ibaorimi's textual essay and visual essay published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies December 1, 2021 AAS Alumnus J.T. Roane co-authored an article the Black Agenda Report December 1, 2021 AAS Alumna Niya Bates featured in UVA Today article 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" November 15, 2021 Deborah McDowell featured in the inaugural edition of Amplify 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 October 15, 2021 Ashon Crawley was one of eight recipients of an UNDO Fellowship by the UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art 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 October 8, 2021 Marlene Daut wrote a review for Harper's Bazaar: Resurrecting a Lost Palace of Haiti October 5, 2021 Marlene Daut on NPR's Planet Money September 24, 2021 Marlene Daut publishes in Essence Magazine September 15, 2021 Marlene Daut featured in Slate Magazine's Podcast A Word with Jason Johnson September 15, 2021 Alexandria Smith, current Woodson post-doctoral fellow published an article in the Journal of Feminist Scholarship August 20, 2021 Ashon Crawley published in the Washington Post August 19, 2021 Marlene Daut provides expert analysis during Haiti's recent political upheaval May 17, 2021 Ashon Crawley's art exhibition "Enunciated Life" reviewed by KCRW May 15, 2021 Marlene Daut awarded 2021 Ford Foundation Fellowship May 15, 2021 Ashon Crawley's book The Lonely Letters won the Lambda Literary Award 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 December 16, 2020 Faculty members awarded NEH Fellowships December 16, 2020 $30 Million Investment Benefits STEM Research October 29, 2020 "Silence is Not an Option" October 27, 2020 Professor Kevin Gaines featured in Washington Post article July 8, 2020 Faculty Spotlight: Kimberly Fields May 1, 2020 Phenomenal Fellows: Woodson Fellows Bring International Prestige to Arts & Sciences December 10, 2019 Former fellows finalists for 2019 the African Studies Association Book Prize December 5, 2019 2019 Norman Foerster Prize December 1, 2019 In Memoriam: Teju Olaniyan November 25, 2019 Black Perspectives Blog November 6, 2019 Marlene Daut featured in the TED-Ed video "The First and Last King of Haiti" November 3, 2019 Ashon Crawley awarded the Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award by the American Musicological Society October 23, 2019 Ashon Crawley published an opinion piece for NPR Music October 5, 2019 Lindsey Jones, former Woodson fellow, received the 2019 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize September 26, 2019 Woodson Fellow Nzingha Kendall received 2020 UNDO Fellowship at UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art September 15, 2019 Andrew Kahrl won Connecticut Book Award for best non-fiction book from the Connecticut Center for the Book August 7, 2019 Deborah McDowell Lauds Powerful Prose of her Friend, Toni Morrison July 28, 2019 Marlene Daut publishes “Becoming Full Professor While Black” in the Chronicle of Higher Education July 17, 2019 In Memoriam: Reginald Butler, Former Woodson Director June 22, 2019 New York Times: "Black People's Land Was Stolen" by Andrew Kahrl April 2, 2019 Marlene Daut awarded 2019 American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship 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 October 9, 2018 Marlene Daut publishes article in Garnet News September 13, 2018 New York Times: "Hurricane Florence and the Displacement of African-Americans along the Carolina Coast" August 29, 2018 UVA Today: 'Trailblazer' Deborah McDowell Chosen for Zintl Leadership Award August 13, 2018 Inside A&S: "Volunteers Gather in Classrooms and Coffeeshops to Transcribe Julian Bond’s Work" August 1, 2018 The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: "University of Virginia to Launch a Crowdsourced Transcription Effort of Julian Bond’s Papers" July 19, 2018 UVA Today: You Can Help Put Julian Bond's Papers in an Online Archive April 30, 2018 Talitha LeFlouria wins prestigious Carnegie Fellowship April 27, 2018 Marlene L. Daut launches digital resource for early 19th century Haiti 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 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 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 February 8, 2018 Woodson Institute's 'August in Perspective: Creative Responses' Calls to Body and Soul December 11, 2017 News on Fellows: Former Fellow Tera W. Hunter writes on Confederate Memorialization October 9, 2017 The Difference a Department Makes: Woodson Institute Determines its Destiny September 12, 2017 Professor Andrew Kahrl published article in The Washington Post August 18, 2017 News on Fellows: Lindsay Jones Publishes Piece on White Nationalism in Teen Vogue July 28, 2017 Professor Andrew Kahrl featured in UVA Today March 20, 2017 News on Fellows: Lyndsey Beutin (Pre-Doc) publishes article in Open Democracy March 9, 2017 News on Fellows: Tony Perry (Pre-Doc) published an article in Slavery & Abolition October 31, 2016 Professor Talitha Leflouria "Chained in Silence: A History of Black Women and Convict Labor" Lecture May 26, 2016 Woodson Fellowship Pipeline Produces Strong Additions to UVA Faculty April 14, 2016 News on Fellows: Congratulations Post-Doc Talitha LeFlouria! October 20, 2015 News on Fellows: Congratulations Post-Doc Fellow Talitha LeFlouria! August 1, 2015 Engaging Race: Forum on Race, Citizenship and Social Justice September 29, 2014 'Fearless' Poet Claudia Rankine to read, discuss events in Ferguson October 7, 2013 Black Studies and Digital Humanities will be focus of panel discussion June 1, 2013 'Juneteenth' to be commemorated with film screening April 30, 2013 Forum Examines Lower Numbers of Black Students at UVA February 13, 2013 Spend an evening with Poet Nikki Giovanni Feb. 13 November 5, 2012 "The Haunted and the Hunted:" A Flash Seminar on Stop-and-Frisk October 25, 2012 New York Times Journalist Charles M. Blow to speak at UVA September 10, 2012 Woodson Institute marks 75 years of "Their Eyes were Watching God" May 8, 2012 Class of 2012: Woodson Fellow Z'etoile Imma Offers a Vision of African Men Beyond Violence March 1, 2012 Valerie Cooper's New Book Looks at Pioneer Abolitionist's use of the Bible January 11, 2012 Symposium on National Museum of African American History and Culture to be held at UVA December 7, 2011 Woodson Fellowships Making Widespread Impact on the Academy December 6, 2011 Two Teams Garner First UVA Arts in Action Project Grants October 21, 2011 Women's Theater Collective, the Saartjie Project to Perform at UVA October 19, 2011 Filmmaker to discuss Twiga Stars: Tanzania's Soccer Sisters October 10, 2011 National Program Brings Diverse Faculty Fellows to Arts & Sciences September 13, 2011 Panel will discuss 'politics of the debt ceiling crisis' April 11, 2011 Symposium Traces History of African American Studies at the University April 1, 2011 UVA Symposium will examine Haiti since 2010 Earthquake March 31, 2011 Out of the Shadows March 30, 2011 30th Anniversary Symposium will explore 'African American and African Studies: At Work in the World" March 28, 2011 Ella Baker Day Symposium at UVA March 2, 2011 Caribbean Writer Maryse Conde to visit UVA February 4, 2011 Feb 10 Talk on African American Women in the Criminal Justice System September 16, 2010 UVA Panel will pay Respect to Aretha Franklin on Oct. 1 September 8, 2010 Activist to Talk about Prison Reform May 4, 2010 Visiting Woodson Professors Bring Diverse Perspectives October 19, 2009 UVA's Woodson Institute to hold symposium on the NAACP April 13, 2009 Activist Angela Davis to headline conference on Prison populations, Spend a week in residence December 3, 2008 How a Summer Internship Helped Me Find My Calling November 13, 2008 Art Isn't Just the Pursuit of Beauty, According to Bill T. Jones October 8, 2008 Woodson Institute's Influence Transcends UVA September 3, 2008 The Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, civil rights activist to speak at UVA April 23, 2008 Deborah E. McDowell Named Carter G. Woodson Institute Director at the University of Virginia April 3, 2008 CGWI Celebrates Centennial of Richard Wright's Birth February 22, 2008 Woodson Fellows to Give Talks This Spring April 19, 2007 UVA's Carter G. Woodson Institute Celebrating its 25th Anniversary
March 27, 2026 Woodson Faculty members Alisha Gaines and Ashon Crawley featured on The Black Studies podcast
March 25, 2026 Robert Trent Vinson presented at Georgetown University's African Studies Colloquium Series
March 15, 2026 Robert Trent Vinson accepted an invitation to serve a two-year term on the Advisory Board for Getting Word: The African American History department at Monticello
March 13, 2026 Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger honors Carter G. Woodson Institute at Black History Month Reception
March 8, 2026 Kevin Gaines gave the 2025-26 annual lecture of the Global Cultures Institute at King's College, London
March 7, 2026 Robert Trent Vinson presented on a panel during the 2026 Black Family History Symposium
March 6, 2026 The Carter G. Woodson Institute co-sponsored a recent event about the state of African American and African Studies departments across the nation
March 2, 2026 Nemata Blyden gave a lecture as part of the 2025-2026 Cambridge American History Seminar at the University of Cambridge
February 27, 2026 Robert Trent Vinson quoted in St. Louis Public Radio's story about Black History Month
February 19, 2026 Andrew Kahrl was awarded the Best Book in Urban Affairs Award for his book The Black Tax
January 30, 2026 Ashleigh Wade received a Dean's Research Fellow award for the academic years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027
January 22, 2026 Ashleigh Greene Wade and Timeka N. Tounsel (University of Washington) launched a new podcast called "Lost Credits"
January 12, 2026 Robert Trent Vinson presented at an event sponsored by WNYC at The Apollo theater in Harlem, NYC for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 9, 2026 Andrew Kahrl's book The Black Tax received The Order of the Coif Book Award for best book in legal scholarship for 2025 from the American Association of Law Schools
December 2, 2025 Naseemah Mohamed's course "Tracing Your Genealogy" was profiled in a UVA Today article
November 18, 2025 Guilherme Lemos, Woodson post-doctoral fellow, organized an event focused on capoeira
November 18, 2025 Woodson faculty, fellows, and fellowship alumni at African Studies Conference (ASA)
November 14, 2025 Joanna Evans, current Woodson post-doctoral fellow, presented her research at e-flux in New York
November 8, 2025 Andrew Kahrl gave the keynote address at the 2025 National Land Bank Network Summit in Detroit, Michigan
November 7, 2025 Kaché Claytor, Woodson Post-Doctoral Fellow, was a panelist during a film screening of "Ancestral Clouds, Ancestral Claims."
November 6, 2025 Nemata Blyden was a panelist on a round table for the University of Bayreuth on Global African Feminisms in/and the Contemporary Diaspora
September 29, 2025 Ashleigh Greene Wade was interviewed on New Books in African American Studies podcast
September 8, 2025 Guy Mount, former Woodson Post-Doctoral Fellow (cohort of 2025) was awarded the Richards Prize for article of the year in the Journal of the Civil War Era
September 5, 2025 Andrew Kahrl's book "The Black Tax" received the Lizabeth Cohen Prize for Best Book on Cities and Political Power
August 5, 2025 Woodson Staff Debbie Best and Randy Swift were recognized at the Academic Service Awards reception hosted for longtime UVA employees
May 7, 2025 Nicole Mitchell Gantt, faculty affiliate, inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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?"
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
March 1, 2025 Woodson faculty members Nemata Blyden and Sabrina Pendergrass, featured on PBS' "Great Migrations" Series (2025)
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
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
January 31, 2025 Nemata Blyden to give keynote address for the academic conference connected to the 2025 Zora! Festival
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
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
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
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"
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"
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"
December 3, 2024 Ashleigh Wade received a TYDE Seed Grant to support developing a non-profit social media platform for Black youth
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
October 22, 2024 Lisa Shutt participated in an event with UVA's Lifetime Learning at Ivy Creek Natural Area & Historic River View Farm
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
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
September 25, 2024 Former Woodson Faculty member Marlene Daut quoted in an article in The Progressive about misinformation regarding Haitian immigrants in Ohio
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
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
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"
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
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
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
May 25, 2024 Kevin Gaines interviewed in a story for PRX's The World: Stevie Wonder celebrates new Ghanaian citizenship
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
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"
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.
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
April 11, 2024 Andrew Kahrl guest essay published in The New York Times - "It’s Time to End the Quiet Cruelty of Property Taxes"
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
October 22, 2023 Kevin Gaines featured on a panel discussion at the Miller Center on the future of affirmative action
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.
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"
September 5, 2023 Jasper Conner published in Fall special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly focused on race and colonization
August 16, 2023 Beyond Granite: Pulling Together - Ashon Crawley's creates exhibition entitled HOMEGOING on the U.S. National Mall
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
August 2, 2023 Alexandria Smith published an essay on She's Gotta Have It in the journal Cultural Studies
April 23, 2023 Williams: Harry Belafonte's bold and generous activism embodied the 'artist as citizen'
April 13, 2023 REPAIR Lab: Norfolk Community-Engaged Research with Kim Sudderth, Practitioner, and Kimberly Fields, UVA Politics
April 3, 2023 National Park Service publishes two historical studies surfacing tragedy and resilience in Black recreation
February 8, 2023 Deborah E. McDowell authored the foreward to The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison
February 6, 2023 The Forgotten Voices of Democracy Black Political Activism under Brazil’s Military Rule
January 29, 2023 Left of Black | Dr. Julius B. Fleming, Jr. on "Black Patience" and the Struggle for Civil Rights
September 28, 2022 Anna Duensing, post-doctoral fellow, publishes op-ed in WashPo's "Made By History" blog
March 14, 2022 Sabrina Pendergrass quoted in NBC5 story "Fort Worth Among US Cities With Largest Growth in Black Population"
February 16, 2022 Kevin Gaines quoted in Virginia Mercury article on Glen Youngkin's campaign rhetoric
February 12, 2022 Woodson Institute leaders emphasize importance of celebrating Black history beyond February
December 1, 2021 Pre-doctoral fellow Zalika Ibaorimi's textual essay and visual essay published in the Journal of Popular Music Studies
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"
October 18, 2021 Kwame E. Otu awarded the Richard and Nancy Guerrant Global Health Equity Professorship
October 15, 2021 Ashon Crawley was one of eight recipients of an UNDO Fellowship by the UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art
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
September 15, 2021 Alexandria Smith, current Woodson post-doctoral fellow published an article in the Journal of Feminist Scholarship
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
November 3, 2019 Ashon Crawley awarded the Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award by the American Musicological Society
October 5, 2019 Lindsey Jones, former Woodson fellow, received the 2019 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize
September 26, 2019 Woodson Fellow Nzingha Kendall received 2020 UNDO Fellowship at UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art
September 15, 2019 Andrew Kahrl won Connecticut Book Award for best non-fiction book from the Connecticut Center for the Book
July 28, 2019 Marlene Daut publishes “Becoming Full Professor While Black” in the Chronicle of Higher Education
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"
August 13, 2018 Inside A&S: "Volunteers Gather in Classrooms and Coffeeshops to Transcribe Julian Bond’s Work"
August 1, 2018 The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education: "University of Virginia to Launch a Crowdsourced Transcription Effort of Julian Bond’s Papers"
April 27, 2018 Julius Fleming named the 2018 Nancy Weiss Malkiel Scholar, by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
February 8, 2018 Woodson Institute's 'August in Perspective: Creative Responses' Calls to Body and Soul
December 11, 2017 News on Fellows: Former Fellow Tera W. Hunter writes on Confederate Memorialization
October 31, 2016 Professor Talitha Leflouria "Chained in Silence: A History of Black Women and Convict Labor" Lecture
May 8, 2012 Class of 2012: Woodson Fellow Z'etoile Imma Offers a Vision of African Men Beyond Violence
January 11, 2012 Symposium on National Museum of African American History and Culture to be held at UVA
March 30, 2011 30th Anniversary Symposium will explore 'African American and African Studies: At Work in the World"
April 13, 2009 Activist Angela Davis to headline conference on Prison populations, Spend a week in residence
April 23, 2008 Deborah E. McDowell Named Carter G. Woodson Institute Director at the University of Virginia
