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AAAS Associate Azad Essa Organizes COVID-19 Children's Book Project

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AAAS Associate Azad Essa noticed that children's books and materials regarding COVID-19 focused on kids living in middle class/elite environments, and failed to speak to the experience of millions of children in cramped housing or informal settlements -...

AAAS Profession Jarvis Givens Awarded 2022 ASALH Book Prize

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The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) awards an annual prize to recognize an outstanding book in the field of African American history and culture. This year's winner is AAAS Profession Jarvis Givens for his book...

AAAS Doctoral Student Kierstan Carter Hosted Harvard Book Store Event

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On Tuesday, September 22, 2020, via the Harvard Book Store's Virtual Event Series, AAAS Doctoral Student Kierstan Carter hosted a virtual conversation with celebrated poet, essayist, and playwright Claudia Rankine ( Yale) regarding her most recent book...

AAAS Professor Vincent Brown Wins 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize

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On Tuesday, November 23, 2021, Yale University announced that the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize will be shared by two scholars, Marjoleine Kars and AAAS Professor Vincent Brown for his book Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War. This is...

AAAS Professor Vincent Brown Receives Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

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On Thursday, September 30, 2021, AAAS Professor Vincent Brown will receive the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his book Tacky's Revolt! at a ceremony sponsored by the Cleveland Foundation. The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award is the oldest prize recognizing...

AAAS Professor Vincent Brown in The Guardian's Best Books of 2020

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AAAS Professor Vincent Brown's award-winning book Tacky's Revolt has been recognized by T he Guardian as one of the best books of 2020. On Sunday, December 6, 2020, The Guardian posted the article listing the best books of 2020 as picked by their...

Book Presentation: Between Embodiments and Weaving in Futuro Anterior

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Art historian, curator, and visiting Scholar Cecilia Fajardo-Hill will present and discuss sections of her upcoming book on Decolonial Art History in Latin American and Latinx Art in the 20th and 21st Centuries on Monday, March 28, 2022, from 4:30-6:00pm...

Book Discussion and Signing with AAAS Professor Kay Shelemay

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Harvard / MIT Coop resumes their In-Store Event Series with a Book Discussion and Signing with AAAS Professor Kay Shelemay for her recent book Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora. All attendees are...

AAAS Grad Student Panashe Chigumadzi Featured in LA Review of Books

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On Monday, December 13, 2021, the LA Review of Books published a review essay entitled “Sankofa Dialetics and the Afterlives of Makerere” written by AAAS Graduate Student Panashe Chigumadzi. Ms. Chigumadzi's essay is a review of Mukoma wa Ngugi’s " The...

AAAS Professor Vincent Brown Wins 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

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The 86th annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards were announced on Monday, April 5, 2021, and AAAS Professor Vincent Brown won for his book Tacky's Revolt! The prestigious Anisfield-Wolf awards were founded in 1935 and are managed by the nonprofit Cleveland...

AAAS Professor Jesse McCarthy's New Book Reviewed by NYT

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On Monday, April 10, 2023, The New York Times published an article titled "The Voices of Unsung Black Poets, Revived and Amplified." The article reviews the new book Minor Notes, Volume 1 which was edited by Joshua Bennett and AAAS Professor Jesse...

AAAS Professor Daniel Agbiboa Gives Book Talk

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On Thursday, September 15, 2022, AAAS Professor Daniel Agbiboa gave a talk about his recently published book They Eat Our Sweat Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria at SciencesPo: Centre for European Studies and Comparative...