News and Events

Faculty News

William Hart, professor emeritus of history and Black studies, has just published his latest book, “For the Good of Their Souls”: Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country, published by University of Massachusetts Press. Click here for more information.

Damascus Kafumbe, professor of music and Black studies, received the 2020 Kwabena Nketia Book Prize for his book titled Tuning the Kingdom: Kawuugulu Musical Performance, Politics, and Storytelling in Buganda (2018, University of Rochester Press). The African Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology awards the prize biannually “to recognize the most distinguished book or monograph on the topic of African and African diasporan music published over the previous three years.”

Upcoming Events

Please join us at Johnson Hall for the Spring Student Work Gallery exhibit from 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 10, 2022. There will be a lunch reception from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the gallery, to which all are welcome.