Black Studies

The Black Studies department invites you to come to celebrate the new academic year, meet our faculty, make new friends, and join great conversations at our welcome back gathering! Lite fare and beverages will be provided.

Dr. Brittany Williams, University of Vermont

Trica Keaton, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College, will deliver a lecture on her new book, #You Know You’re Black in France When… The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness, published by MIT Press in 2023.

Departments of Sociology; Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies; Independent Scholar; and Black Studies joint reception for graduating seniors and their guests in Axinn Center Winter Garden.

 

Please join the Black Studies Program for an informational session regarding our course offerings for Fall 2023, our major and minor, and the future of the program!

Lunch will be served!

In this new series, Middlebury professors Linsey Sainte-Claire (French) and Enrique García (Luso-Hispanic Studies) will discuss their BIPOC Research and Teaching in Middlebury College. Their focus will be their scholar and pedagogical approaches to Henri Christophe, one of the most important nationalist figures in Haiti’s history.  

Viola Huang (Black Studies and German) and Matthew Schrader (Studio Art) will discuss their BIPOC Research and Teaching in Middlebury College. Their focus will be their scholar and pedagogical approaches to the history of monuments and their spaces and how they are connected to both the history of racism and the fight against white supremacy.

The Black Studies Program will cap off the year with a showcase of student work from across the program’s curriculum. Please join us to celebrate the work of our students.

The Black Studies Program will cap off the year with a showcase of student work from across the program’s curriculum. Please join us to celebrate the work of our students.

Michael Leo Owens, Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Emory University

Portions of the U.S. public focus on reducing police violence, particularly police shootings of civilians. Journalists and activists sustain that focus by documenting and publicizing annual numbers of police shootings. Does providing numeric information about police shootings influence public support for police reforms? The talk will address empirical challenges of answering the question and offer insights about numeric-based initiatives to reduce police shootings in the U.S.