News

April 2, 2018
Will’s just finished a new short film focused on the women of Chicago footwork called, I am the Queen. Please check it out on Fader magazine. http://www.thefader.com/...
April 2, 2018
Laura Renee Barraclough, newly designated as the Sarai K. Ribicoff Associate Professor of American Studies, teaches and conducts research on American cities, race, class, and...
March 23, 2018
A hearty cheers to Sebastian Perez, currently Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in Latina/o Studies at Williams College. His research and teaching interests are focused on Latino/a...
March 10, 2018
Inderpal Grewal on her book Saving the Security State: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First-Century America In a nutshell…empires wax and wane, and what we are seeing today...
March 5, 2018
Yale News explores Yale Scholar as he Cuban-American life through lens of popular culture There was a time when Albert Laguna thought his father was the funniest man in the...
January 30, 2018
Cheers to Joshua Glick, PhD 13’, Currently Assistant Professor of English and Film Studies, holds a PhD in Film & Media Studies and American Studies. His research and...
December 20, 2017
Crystal Feimster provides historical context to the  long tradition of black women speaking out against sexual abuse in a discussion of the film, “The Rape of Recy Taylor,” (...