Africana Studies News

Professor Monica Miller is a sought-after style educator who consulted on two projects debuting this August in London.

Professor Miller shares two projects in London:

1) Along with other academics, I was an initial consultant (very small role, but fun) for the V&A Museum's historic exhibition Africa Fashion, which opens on July 2nd-- it is getting amazing press in England.  I wrote an essay for the exhibition catalog, "Orange Culture: Once Upon a Time in Nigeria…".  Orange Culture (A Nigerian fashion label that makes clothes for all genders) is featured on the cover of the book.  The catalog will be available in August 2022

2) Last year, I wrote an essay for Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon show at the Whitechapel Gallery, a show that was in collaboration with the V&A.  Gates' work has been on exhibition in London since Fall of 2021 and now includes his "Black Chapel" installation for the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion.  The catalog for A Clay Sermon, including my essay, "Oh Yeah! Yes! Oh Yeah!: Theaster Gate's film A Clay Sermon" will also be published in August of 2022. 

Congratulations to Celia E. Naylor,  Professor of Africana Studies and History; Chair of the Africana Studies Department, on her recently published book entitled "Unsilencing Slavery". 

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A Barnard student, professor, and staff member reflect on the meaning and importance of Juneteenth.

This year, Barnard awarded two exceptional students — Amanda Taylor ’22 and Makeen Zachery ’22 — for embodying the spirit of the late Professor Prettyman. #CountdownToCommencement

Alexis Pauline Gumbs (nonfiction), whose book Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, "offers new methods of feeling, and insists with the best of environmental literature that protecting the planet's collapsing animal ecologies is vital to saving what makes us human."

https://knpr.org/npr/2022-04/2022-whiting-awards-celebrate-10-emerging-writers

The Francophone-Caribbean scholar and lead researcher of a $5 million Mellon Foundation grant and a $40,000 NEH award discusses her inspirations. 

This addition provides a window into Shange’s creative process and the publishing industry, Shange's work as a teacher, and Shange as a sister, mother, daughter, and friend.

A Mentor, a Trailblazer, an Institution. #BarnardCelebratesBlackHistory

Wolfe, who served as Chief of Staff and Deputy Mayor in Bill de Blasio’s administration, will enhance Barnard’s relationships with government officials and expand leadership development opportunities.