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Faculty Highlights

Dr. Courtney Sato awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for her project titled, "Pacific Internationalisms: Asian American Mobility, Gender, and Empire in the Interwar Period".

Dr. Mary McNeil awarded a 2024-2025 Faculty Fellowship position at the Center for Humanities at Tufts. 

Dr. Kerri Greenidge, Dr. Kendra Field, and Kyera Singleton were selected by the City of Boston as a team to study the history and legacy of slavery in Boston. 

Kerri Greenidge's book "The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family" selected by Smithsonian Magazine as one of the 'The Ten Best History Books of 2022'.

Welcome AB Huber - In Fall 2022, AB will be a Senior Lecturer and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora.

Welcome Mary McNeil - In Fall 2022, Mary will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora.

Lorgia García Peña named 2021 Freedom Scholar.  The Marguerite Casey Foundation (MCF) and Group Health Foundation (GHF) partnered to establish the Freedom Scholars award a year ago. Freedom Scholars awards represent a commitment to scholarship relevant to movements led by Black and Indigenous people, migrants and queer people, poor people and people of color. The awards also recognize the role that scholars play in cultivating and nurturing movements for justice and freedom.

The Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora is excited to congratulate Professor Kerri Greenidge on receiving the Massachusetts Historical Society's Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize 2020.

Kerri Greenidge wrote a review for the New York Times titled, "Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America".

Kerri K. Greenidge wrote a story for The Atlantic titled, "Beyond the Myth of Malcolm X: Understanding the humanity, and the communities, that shaped the brilliant, troubled, selfish, generous, sincere radical".

Welcome Sarah E. K. Fong - In Fall 2020, Sarah will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora.

Sarah E. K. Fong is a 2020-2021 recipient of the Neubauer Fund for Faculty Excellence.

In Fall 2020, Kerri K. Greenidge will be the Mellon Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora.

Kerri K. Greenidge was recently awarded the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize from the Massachusetts Historical Society for her highly praised book, Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter.

Kerri K. Greenidge was awarded the Mark Lynton History Prize for her book, Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter.

Kareem Khubchandani recently published the book Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife (University of Michigan Press, 2020).

Kerri K. Greenidge's book, Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter, was named a New York Times - Times Critics' Top Book of 2019.

Kerri K. Greenidge recently published the book Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter (Liveright, 2019). Read the review by the NY Times.

Heather Curtis recently published "How American Christian media promoted charity abroad" in The Conversation.

Kendra Taira Field recently published the book Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War (Yale University Press, 2018).

Heather Curtis recently published the book Holy Humanitarians: American Evangelicals and Global Aid (Harvard University Press, 2018).

Student Highlights