#africana womens studies

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Tens of thousands of people visit Bank of America stadium to watch the Carolina Panthers play football each year – never realizing they are walking on top of lost remnants of a once-thriving Black neighborhood established in the aftermath of the Civil War.

The stadium itself is built directly atop a relic of segregated healthcare: Good Samaritan Hospital, the first private hospital built in North Carolina to serve Black patients. Built in 1891, this historic hospital was one of the oldest of its kind in the United States.

It was also the site of one of the “most horrific racial incidents in Charlotte's history,” according to Dan Aldridge, professor of History and Africana Studies at Davidson College.

A mob of 30 to 35 armed, white men invaded the hospital, dragging a man out of the hospital and into the streets – and shooting him dead in front of the building.

The concept of “urban renewal” destroyed Black neighborhoods, communities, businesses and homes all across North Carolina, especially between 1949 and 1974.

Durham, for example, once had a prominent Black Wall Street, where Black businesses flourished; however, the historic community was almost completely destroyed by construction of the Durham Freeway.

Likewise, Raleigh once had 13 historic Freedmen's Villages, built entirely by men and women freed from slavery in the aftermath of emancipation. Today, only two are remaining, and Oberlin Village, the largest one, was cut in half by the construction of Wade Avenue.

Similarly, Charlotte's Brooklyn community was built by men and women freed from slavery in the late 1800s. Like many Black communities around the state, it was forced into an awful geographical location – on low-lying land where flooding, sewage and sanitation issues made life hazardous.

According to history in the Charlotte Library, the Brooklyn area was first identified on maps as ‘Logtown’ in the late 1800s – a name that matches closely with titles given to similar freedmen villages in the Triangle area, which were often called slang names like ‘Slabtown’ or ‘Save Rent’ due to their inexpensive homes.

In the 1900s, the area became known as Brooklyn, “a name that would become synonymous with the Black community until urban renewal.”

“It's a tragedy that so many stadiums were built on sites that were once Black communities,” said Aldridge. “They're poor neighborhoods. They're struggling neighborhoods. I won't romanticize them by claiming they're all like Black Wall Street, but they were people's homes and people's communities, and they were taken from them.”

Many historically significant Black sites were lost in urban renewal; likewise, many Black communities were forced to build in geographically unfit areas, making growing wealth and property more difficult – and more easily lost over time.

At its peak, Brooklyn was home to:

Charlotte's first Black public school

Charlotte's only Black high school

The city's first free library for Black patrons

The first companies to offer white collar jobs to Black workers

The first private hospital for Black citizens in Charlotte

Today, football players run up and down the Bank of America field for the amusement of thousands of cheering fans. However, in 1913, over a century ago, that same land had a very different story.

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Encyclopedia of American Race Riots [2 volumes]: Greenwood Milestones in African American History [2 volumes] Illustrated Edition

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2008 Ida B. Wells and Cheikh Anta Diop Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Africana Studies

2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

Race riots are the most glaring and contemporary displays of the racial strife running through America's history. Mostly urban, mostly outside the South, and mostly white-instigated, the number and violence of race riots increased as blacks migrated out of the rural South and into the North and West's industrialized cities during the early part of the twentieth-century.

Though white / black violence has been the most common form of racial violence, riots involving Asians and Hispanics are also included and examined. Race riots are the most glaring and contemporary displays of the racial strife running through America's history. Mostly urban, mostly outside the South, and mostly white-instigated, the number and violence of race riots increased as blacks migrated out of the rural South and into the North and West's industrialized cities during the early part of the twentieth-century.

While most riots have occurred within the past century, the encyclopedia reaches back to colonial history, giving the encyclopedia an unprecedented historical depth.

Though white on black violence has been the most common form of racial violence, riots involving other racial and ethnic groups, such as Asians and Hispanics, are also included and examined.

Organized A-Z, topics include: notorious riots like the Tulsa Riots of 1921, the Los Angeles Riots of 1965 and 1992; the African-American community's preparedness and responses to this odious form of mass violence; federal responses to rioting; an examination of the underlying causes of rioting; the reactions of prominent figures such as H. Rap Brown and Martin Luther King, Jr to rioting; and much more. Many of the entries describe and analyze particular riots and violent racial incidents, including the following:

Belleville, Illinois, Riot of 1903 Harlem, New York, Riot of 1943 Howard Beach Incident, 1986 Jackson State University Incident, 1970 Los Angeles, California, Riot of 1992 Memphis, Tennessee, Riot of 1866 Red Summer Race Riots of 1919 Southwest Missouri Riots 1894-1906 Texas Southern University Riot of 1967

Entries covering the victims and opponents of race violence, include the following:

Black Soldiers, Lynching of Black Women, Lynching of Diallo, Amadou Hawkins, Yusef King, Rodney Randolph, A. Philip Roosevelt, Eleanor Till, Emmett, Lynching of Turner, Mary, Lynching of Wells-Barnett, Ida B.

Many entries also cover legislation that has addressed racial violence and inequality, as well as groups and organizations that have either fought or promoted racial violence, including the following:

Anti-Lynching League Civil Rights Act of 1957 Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 Ku Klux Klan National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Nation of Islam Vigilante Organizations White League Other entries focus on relevant concepts, trends, themes, and publications.

Besides almost 300 cross-referenced entries, most of which conclude with lists of additional readings, the encyclopedia also offers a timeline of racial violence in the United States, an extensive bibliography of print and electronic resources, a selection of important primary documents, numerous illustrations, and a detailed subject index.

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

⭐️ “solidarity doesn't mean "shut up and fall in line, don't question the rest of the community" it means LISTENING to marginalized people when they speak up about issues that are actively detrimental to solidarity within a community! that’s why nonblack solidarity for Black folk does not exist!”

⭐️ “a lot of people using "intersectionality" and "identity politics" while having never read the documents those terms were coined in which would show why those terms have specificity to Black struggle, particularly the struggle of Black women. bold move to respond to people pointing out the erasure of Black women by... *checks notes* misusing terms from Black women and erasing their fundamental role in creating them.”

⭐️ “combahee river collective statement is like a 15~30 minute read. a lot of yall really have no excuses for the way you talk about identity politics as if you havent read it.”

⭐️ “Identity politics was literally formulated by CRC to center Black women. Tf is you talking about. The demand for solidarity was directed at people who aren't Black women respecting Black women's autonomy and learning to apprehend the totality by centering our particular struggles”

⭐️ “Black people do not need "anti-racists", we need people who are anti-antiBlackness. if you can't name antiBlackness specifically in order to broaden and dilute struggle against it, you are not performing solidarity.”

⭐️ “cis Black women experience ungendering as a function of fungibility. this is not something that is applicable to white women regardless of their other marginalizations. the reason why it's so easy to notice similarities between antiBlackness and other marginalizations is because Blackness exists in an anterior position to them and is interstitial; its ontological plasticity forms Euromodernity itself and informs the marginalizations it produces.”

⭐️ “Please use #DignityForBrianna instead of using hashtag SayHerName to mourn Brianna Ghey. That hashtag is for Black folks killed by police violence, for that community to mourn & fight.”

⭐️ “why the specificity of criticizing state forms of anti-black trans violence is necessary is cuz if anything comes out of this it will be something like "Brianna's Law" & it will fund putting cops at playgrounds to "protect" trans kids from "bad ppl" & we know how that goes”

⭐️ “The extent to which ppl do not respect the expertise of Black scholars on our *own shit* (Black history, Black sociology, Black studies, Africana philosophy etc.) is really incredible. I don't mean that they question you. I mean they don't assume it requires any reading to do so. Like you can just read one book, or follow some Twitter threads or some shit, and argue with somebody that's been studying the same shit for decades. And it's not just nonblks that do this. Though the same ones wouldn't go past two sentences with a Hegel scholar. It's really a measure of how little everybody appreciates the work that has gone into Africana Studies, that they think they can just casually step in and "actually" people who dedicate their lives to it, no matter how many references we drop they aint know affect their claims.”

⭐️ “y’all don’t even wanna have the conversation about how black trans girls are being trafficked and killed at a much higher rate and they’ve never gotten this level of attention. Black folk are hypervisible to the state and it's various extensions and invisible to the broader movements in conflict against the state.”

⭐️ “the lang of "hate crime" whose origins are largely WHITE & invoke state protection/more police for WHITE targeted groups (see Dean Spade's crit of Hate Crime laws/logic in Normal Life) is a v succinct exmpl of why Black Trans analysis maintains its differentiated specificity”

⭐️ “Calling “Say Her Name” “intellectual property” like it’s a slogan for a brand & not an actual movement is misogynoir, anti-black & violent.” “genuinely not sure why this "discourse" is still happening for no reason for it bc ppl rn are using #HerNameIsBrianna #DignityForBrianna #RememberBriannaGhey if they want to use hash tags and are continuing on with the work that actually matters w/o splitting movements” “It’s honestly Disturbing how people engage with Black feminism. First y’all divorced identity politics from its meaning, disregard intersectionality & now arguing about the meaning of #SayHerName. Y’all only engage with Black feminism to find ways to center yourselves” “we are fighting for the abolition of sanctioned gender violence AND state/police gender violence. yt feminisms incl yt trans feminism have "fought" against the former by materially funding the latter”

⭐️ “can we acknowledge that at the same time we’re doing “intersectionality is liberalism” debate, people are doubling down on the erasure of black gender marginalized victims of state violence by co-opting a campaign coordinated by Kimberlé Crenshaw in real time. what a coincidence.”

[stamproject2023]

A little bit of personal history

Kimberlé Crenshaw is a prominent legal scholar, professor, and founder of the African American Policy Forum. She was born in Canton, Ohio, on May 5 1959 to Marian and Walter Clarence Crenshaw. Her parents encouraged her from a young age to discuss "interesting things" that she "observed in the world that day" which later became the foundation of her career.

Crenshaw attended Canton McKinley High School before pursuing higher education at Cornell University, where she earned a bachelor's degree in Government and Africana studies in 1981. She then earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1984, where she was a member of the Harvard Law Review. In 1985 she completed an LL.M. from the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she also served as a law clerk to Wisconsin Supreme Court Judge Shirley Abrahamson.

Following the completion of her L.L.M., Crenshaw joined the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law in 1986, where she has been teaching ever since. She is widely recognized as a founder of the field of critical race theory, and her academic work focuses on civil rights, critical race studies and constitutional law. At UCLA she teaches several courses, including Advanced Critical Race Theory, Civil Rights, Intersectional Perspectives on Race, Gender and the Criminalization of Women & Girls and Race, Law and Representation. She has been recognized by her students for her exceptional teaching abilities, having been elected professor of the year by matriculating students in both 1991 and 1994.

In 1995, Crenshaw was appointed a full professor at Columbia Law School, where she also founded and directs the Centre for Intersectionality & Social Policy Studies, established in 2011. Her courses at Columbia include a Intersectionalities Workshop centred around Civil Rights.

Throughout her career, Crenshaw has been actively involved in promoting equality and justice. In 1991, she assisted the legal team representing Anita Hill at the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In 1996, she co-founded the African American Policy Forum (AAPF), a think tank focused on "dismantling structural inequality" and "advancing and expanding racial justice, gender equality, and the indivisibility of all human rights, both in the U.S. and internationally." The organization's mission is to bridge the gap between academic research and public discourse in addressing inequality and discrimination.

Crenshaw has received numerous awards and honours for her work, including the Fulbright Chair for Latin America in Brazil, and in 2008, she was awarded an in-residence fellowship at the Centre of Advanced Behavioural Studies at Stanford. She has also written several books and articles, including "Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Colour," which has become a widely-cited and influential piece in the field of critical race theory. Her next book, "The Race Track: How the Myth of Equal Opportunity Defeats Racial Justice," co-authored with Luke Charles Harris and George Lipsitz, will be published in December 2025.

In addition to her academic work, Crenshaw has also been involved in various public service roles. She wrote the background paper on Race and Gender Discrimination for the United Nations World Conference on Racism in 2001, helped to facilitate the addition of gender in the WCAR Conference Declaration and served as a member of the National Research Council panel on Research on Violence Against Women.

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[sorchanitua]

Rutgers University-Newark Assistant Professorship in African American History

Deadline: Unstated in description; posted on HEJ 11/20 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “Candidates with research areas in twentieth century African American ecology and women and gender studies are welcomed. This position requires a Ph.D. in history, American studies or Africana studies and two years of teaching.” URL: https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/240327

[lboogie1906]

Paula J. Giddings (November 16, 1947) is a writer, historian, and civil rights activist. She is the author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America, In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta, and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement.

She was born in Yonkers to Virginia Iola Stokes and Curtis Gulliver Giddings. She graduated from Howard University with a BA in English. She worked on the university’s newspaper. She became editor of the university’s literary magazine, The Promethean.

She worked for Random House, first as an editorial assistant and as a copy editor. She became an associate book editor for the Howard University Press. She served as the Paris bureau chief for Encore America/Worldwide News. She transferred to the New York office, where she served as an associate editor.

She served as a contributing editor and book review editor for Essence magazine and became a distinguished scholar for UNCF.

She joined the faculty of Douglass College at Rutgers University. She joined Smith College as the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor of Africana Studies. She served as the editor of the feminist journal Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. She became Smith College’s department chair and honors thesis advisor for the Department of Africana Studies.

She received many accolades for her biography of civil rights activist Ida B. Wells. Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching received the Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize from the Association of Black Women Historians, the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Award and was the Nonfiction winner of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named Best Book by the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune. The book was recognized as the inaugural Duke University John Hope Franklin Research Center Book Award winner.

She was a National Book Award Judge for nonfiction works. She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #deltasigmatheta

[carmenvicinanza]

Lupita Nyong’o

Non dimenticherò mai, neanche per un istante, che la gioia che provo nella mia vita la devo alla sofferenza delle donne che mi hanno preceduto. Nessuna di noi dovrebbe mai scordarlo.

Lupita Nyong’o, attrice, modella, scrittrice e attivista, ha vinto il Premio Oscar 2014, col suo film d’esordio, 12 anni schiavo.

Si batte quotidianamente per una corretta e autentica rappresentazione delle donne nere.

Coi discorsi pubblici, il sostegno a campagne di empowerment femminile, la scelta dei ruoli, i suoi look, comprese acconciature e accessori studiati ad arte contro il fenomeno del texturism (la discriminazione di persone con chiome afro o ricce), mostra ogni giorno, la libertà di poter fare qualsiasi cosa e diventare chiunque si voglia essere.

È nata a Città del Messico, il 1º marzo 1983 da genitori kenyoti. Suo padre, docente universitario e politico, vi si era trasferito con la moglie nel 1980 per sfuggire alle persecuzioni causate dall’instabilità del paese d’origine dopo che suo fratello era scomparso in circostanze misteriose.

Da bambina ha vissuto per qualche anno in Africa prima di tornare in America. Ha una laurea in Studi cinematografici e teatrali all’Università di Hampshire, nel Massachusetts.

Ha iniziato a lavorare nel cinema come assistente alla produzione, la notorietà è arrivata col primo documentario, In My Genes, di cui è stata regista, produttrice e ideatrice.

Nel 2013 ha ricoperto il ruolo della schiava Patsey nell’acclamato film 12 anni schiavo, che le ha portato un Oscar alla miglior attrice non protagonista, uno Screen Actors Guild Award e un Critics’ Choice Movie Award oltre alle nomination per il Golden Globe e il BAFTA.

Nel 2014 ha doppiato la lupa Raksha nel remake in live-action de Il libro della giungla.

L’anno seguente ha debuttato a Broadway come protagonista nel dramma Eclipsed, che le è valso una candidatura al Tony Award.

Sono seguite le interpretazioni in diversi film di gran successo tra cui svetta l’interpretazione dell’aliena Maz Kanata nella trilogia sequel di Star Wars.

Nel 2018 è entrata nel Marvel Cinematic Universe, interpretando Nakia in Black Panther fortunato film candidato all’Oscar che ha incassato più di un miliardo di dollari in tutto il mondo e che le ha portato una candidatura ai Saturn Awards come miglior attrice.

Con l’obiettivo di rendere onore a una storia di ricerca della propria autostima e di discriminazione basata sul colore della pelle, nel 2019, ha scritto il libro per l’infanzia Sulwe, entrato nella lista dei best-seller del New York Times destinato a diventare un film d’animazione per Netflix.

Ha preso parte alla serie documentaristica Warrior Women, un viaggio nella storia e un modo per riscriverla da una prospettiva africana, finora sempre sotto rappresentata.

È stata la prima donna non bianca a presiedere la giuria del Festival di Berlino 2024. 

Il cinema per lei deve essere rappresentare le differenze e la pluralità di voci e mette tutto il suo impegno nel sensibilizzare le giovani donne su temi importanti come l’orgoglio delle origini, la libertà di scelta e l’empowerment.

Ha fatto della diversità il suo punto di forza e con innata eleganza e fiera consapevolezza, continua trionfalmente il suo cammino artistico e culturale.

[beverleyngalacontextualstudies]

Proposal for writing

Working Titles:

Black people and spirituality, Black magic, Black mysticism, Africana magic

Key words:

Spirituality, Colonialism, Post Colonialism, Hoodoo, Christianity, Vodou, Voodoo, Juju, Magic, Hysteria, African Culture, Diaspora, Witchcraft

For my Dissertation I would like to touch on African Spirituality, its history and examples of how it is depicted in the media such as Nigerian and Ghanaian movies as it is the leading media that is consumed inside and outside of Africa and western media depictions. I would like to discuss Africa’s relationship with spirituality and Christianity and why many choose to follow christianity as Christianity is the number 1 Religion followed by African people and how it is ingrained in African culture and Black diaspora. In addition to this, African spiritual practices have been a subject of fear and avoidance amongst black people and its portrayal in the media could contribute to this. Colonialism also has a part to play in this fear of African spirituality as In Colonial times, Black Slaves were often banned by slave masters from practicing Vodou (a spiritual practice originating from Haiti), forms of magic and ancestral work as it was alien to them and demonized. My goal is to bring light to the issue of Africans demonizing their own spirituality that is a key part of their culture and the west’s influences on this. 

Artists/Practitioners/Case studies:

I initially watched the youtube channel Intexual media and their case study  video discussing Black womens History of Hoodoo, conjure, and witchcraft. the topic above that I would like to research on. I chose this as an initial start so I could be informed of a possible starting point for my dissertation and they also referred to other sources that they used for their information so it indicates that they are well informed of the topic. 

Primary Resources: 

British Museum, Interviewing family members

Bibliography:

Intelexual Media 2023 A Black Womans History on Hoodoo, Conjure, and witchcraft (on Youtube)

[pndiho]

ZIMBABWE ELECTIONS SET FOR AUGUST 23RD, 2023

By Paul Ndiho For average voters in Zimbabwe, the upcoming elections provide an opportunity to exercise their democratic right to vote for leaders who align with their values and shape the future of the country. But what’s at stake? For more analysis, VOA’s Paul Ndiho spoke to Dr. Chipo Dendere, Assistant Prof of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, a private women’s liberal arts college in…

[zebulonmiletsky]

Africana Studies' Black Pulsations series presents a talk by Dr. Lynda R. Day of @bklyncollege411 @africana_studiesbc Monday, March 20th 4:30PM 1006 Humanities “We Go a Long Way Back: A History of African Americans on Long Island” Dr. Lynda R. Day is a Professor of Africana Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She received her Ph.D. in African and African American History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her B.A. in Comparative History from Howard University. A life-long resident of Long Island, she served as curator of the African American Museum of Nassau County for five years. She is the author of “Making a Way to Freedom: A History of African Americans on Long Island,” a standard text on Long Island's black history, winner of a Certificate of Commendation from the Association of State and Local History. Besides publishing numerous articles on women leaders in Africa, her research on this topic led to the publication of her book, Gender and Power, the Women Chiefs of Sierra Leone, the last Two Hundred Years (Palgrave MacMillan, 2012). Her keen interest in Asante culture inspired her to organize ten faculty-led study abroad programs to Ghana, West Africa. She will be introduced by Dr. Zebulon Miletsky @zebulonmiletsky The Black Pulsations series is supported by an award from the office of the Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Incusion and the office of the President, Stony Brook University. Thank you to the Humanities Institute @sbuhumanities for their help and guidance. Also to Stony Brook University @stonybrooku and the College of Arts and Sciences @sbuartssciences (at Stony Brook University) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpldbDhP3Oz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[centerednscholared]

This book. Is. Absolutely. Brilliant.

“The Salt Eaters” is one of those books that took me years to read. For some reason, I always seemed to begin to read it and after the first few pages I had to put it down. Part because I couldn’t grasp the concept of what was going on and because I had too much going on in my life. See, this book demands you be abandoned when you read it. After finally reading the book, I realized it was difficult to read because it was personal. It felt like a conversation I would have with my girlfriends. It was “an older book” that was still relevant. It gave me the feel of a Zora Neale Hurston book or Toni Morrison. It is time bending and revolutionary.

I was introduced to Bambara around the time I began to consume myself with literature from black women. The summer going in to my sophomore year of undergraduate school when I sat on the library floor and found Sanchez, Shange, Giovanni, Walker, Brooks, Jordan, Clifton to name a few. I was a theatre student, who also loved poetry, scouring for material to perform and interpret for auditions and competitions. Bambara was one of the names that kept coming up so I kept her on my list of authors that “changed the game”.

Those who know me know that I am a thrift store book shopper. I never buy used books for over $3.00 and one day (years ago) I came across this book:

Of course what attracted me was the cover, but inside were essays by all the women I had been self educating myself about. This book was Bambara’s first book, The Black Woman: An Anthology, in which African American women of different ages and classes voiced issues not addressed by the civil rights and women’s movements. I realized I needed to pick up a Bambara book and get to know her creatively. When I asked around what book to read first, everyone said “The Salt Eaters”. I remember trying to start this book for like two weeks until I justified with myself that this book was like “Meridian” by Alice Walker and “Song of Soloman” by Toni Morrison… I just didn’t get it. I put Bambara down and would come back to her a few times after that and could not get in to it. But when I did, it was a “game changer” for me!

Her novel “The Salt Eaters” centers on a healing event that coincides with a community festival in a fictional city of Claybourne, Georgia. In the novel, minor characters use a blend of modern medical techniques alongside traditional folk medicines and remedies to help the central character, Velma, heal after a suicide attempt. Through the struggle of Velma and the other characters surrounding her, Bambara chronicles the deep psychological toll that African-American political and community organizers can suffer, especially women. This material and subject matter was simply not being published. A brilliant and wise story!

Fast forward years later to 2018 and I sit in one of my grad school classes and on the book list is Bambara’s “The Black Woman”. All in time… all in time things will make sense and connect themselves. I am sitting in a setting where Bambara is being discussed as a scholar, black feminist and a creative. The most important thing, neither one was considered more important than the other. In my studies of Africana Womens Studies, interrupting the duality of women’s scholarship is a language encouraged for others to perceive and understand that black women scholars are shift makers and are both.

Today I honor Toni Cade Bambara on her birthday! Do yourself a favor, make sure you have these titles in your personal library:

Toni Cade Bambara, the scholar This book. Is. Absolutely. Brilliant. "The Salt Eaters" is one of those books that took me years to read.

[p1anether]

i like that this zoom divided the breakout groups by major and then my group was just the “and others”

[meganambers]

Muse Of The Week: Jamie Baratta

Muse Of The Week: Jamie Baratta

“A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.” – Melinda Gates 

When it comes down to me choosing a muse for the week, I usually think of powerful and artistic women who have contributed to their community and to the world. Women who have played a role in the improvement of equality between men and women, the betterment of women’s rights, and the overall bridging the gap between women…

[homerstroystory]

professional organizations for classics

this is by no means a comprehensive list of every Classics-oriented professional society in the world, but it's a pretty sizeable list. google around and see if you can find more that suit your interests! as you can tell from this list, theres a society or organization for practically every subfield within Classics. a lot of these societies also offer scholarships and grants.

based on my experience as an american, most of these are going to be based in the US; any that are international or outside the US will be indicated in blue. each state also typically has its own state-wide association (i know california has two distinct associations for different part of the state and new york has several, with some of them specifically geared toward NYC.

General Organizations

Society for Classical Studies (SCS)- one of the biggest Classical Studies organizations in the world, a catch-all for all subfields of Classical Studies and Classical Archaeology (including but not limited to Mediterranean prehistory, late antiquity, early medievalism, Near Eastern Studies, etc.) *INTERNATIONAL*

Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS)- the largest regional North American Classical organization (31 US states and 3 Canadian territories are included, divided into smaller subregions) *US & CANADA*

Classical Association of New England (CANE)- New England region Classical Association

Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS)- Atlantic states (Virginia, Maryland, etc.) region Classical Association

Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest (CAPN)- Pacific Northwestern states and Canadian provinces region Classical Association *US & CANADA*

American Classical League (ACL)- a lot like SCS but not as prominent and restricted to the USA

Eta Sigma Phi- honor society for undergraduates; you can apply for scholarships for up to 8 years after graduating from your undergrad

Digital Classics Association- an organization focused on the teaching and study of Classics through digital media

Classical Association of Canada- like SCS and ACL but specifically for Canada *CANADA*

The Classical Association- like SCS and ACL but specifically for Great Britain *GREAT BRITAIN*

Hesperides: Classics in the Luso-Hispanic World- an organization focusing on the study of Greco-Roman influence outside of the normal geographic constraints (i.e., the Americas, Caribbean, Pacific, etc.) with an emphasis on underrepresented voices in the field including Hispanic, Indigenous, and African descent; website available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese *INTERNATIONAL*

Language & Author-Specific Organizations

International Ovidian Society *INTERNATIONAL*

Vergilian Society

American Association for Neo-Latin Studies (AANLS)

American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (ASGLE)

International Society for Neoplatonic Studies (ISNS)

Society for the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin Literature

Minority Identity Organizations

Classics and Social Justice- not an organization, but an extremely helpful and important resource for Classicists who are not content with the current social and political climate and want to work towards change

Women's Classical Caucus (WCC)- affiliate organization of the SCS focusing on women's and gender studies in the Ancient Mediterranean

Mountaintop Coalition- a relatively new organization focusing on the professional advancement of students and scholars of the Ancient Mediterranean and its reception who identify with an underrepresented ethnic minority

Lambda Classical Caucus (LCC)- an organization for queer Classicists and allies

Eos- a relatively new organization focusing on Africana and Africana Reception Studies

Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus (AAACC)- an organization focusing on the promotion of scholarship by Asian and Asian-American Classicists

Multiculturalism, Race, and Ethnicity in Classics Consortium (MRECC)- an organization focusing on the teaching of race and ethnicity in ancient cultures, as well as sensitivity to those subjects in modern scholarship

Archaeological Organizations

Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)- the largest archaeological organization in the US and a sister organization to SCS; not limited to Classical archaeology *significant international presence*

American Society of Papyrologists

American Friends of Herculaneum (AFoH)- an organization focusing solely on the study of the archaeological site of Herculaneum

Etruscan Foundation- an organization dedicated to the study of Etruria

Historical & Religious History Organizations

Association for Ancient Historians (AAH)

Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacology

Society for Late Antiquity

Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions (SAMR)

Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR)

MOISA: International Society for Ancient Greek & Roman Music and Its Heritage

Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy

Schools

Most European countries have their own Schools in Rome and Athens, which may offer membership and scholarship opportunities.

American Academy in Rome

American School of Classical Studies at Athens

College Year in Athens

Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome

Padeia Institute

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Alfred University (NY) Assistant Professorship in Sociology/Criminology

Deadline: Unstated; posted on HEJ 8/28 Length/Track: Tenure track Description: “Candidates with a demonstrated interest in interdisciplinary programs such as Data Analytics, Women and Gender Studies, Social Justice Studies, or Africana Studies are strongly encouraged to…