Beginning in Fall 2026, “1776/2026” will convene faculty, guest scholars, and community partners for lectures, panels, and workshops. We congratulate Dr. Edmonds and her team.
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...offering historical, literary, rhetorical, and political-theoretical interpretations of what this document means a quarter millennium after its signing.
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Edmonds joins a cross-disciplinary UW-Madison research team. Their project, “1776/2026: The Declaration at 250,” will launch a year-long series of campus events and public conversations...
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Dr. Brittney Edmonds headshot with text across that reads: "Awarded the Paul Martin Wolff Center Seed Grant".
Dr. Brittney Edmonds, assistant professor of African American Studies, has been awarded the inaugural $50,000 Paul Martin Wolff Center seed grant.
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How a New UW Lab is Mapping Black Madisonians' Stories
Dr. Jessica Lee Stovall, director of The SoulFolk Collective, and Ph.D. student, Angela Fitzgerald Wald, a research fellow for SoCo, joined the City Cast Madison podcast this week to discuss how SoCo is centering the Black Madison experience. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/2UWo...
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...we will discuss some of the challenges, successes, and frustrations that come with working between art history and curatorial practice.
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Drawing from Prof. Drewal’s experience leading UW students in curating the African art gallery at the Chazen and Prof. Sullivan’s experience as a curatorial fellow for African arts at the MET...
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Join Professors Henry J. Drewal and Elaine Sullivan for a conversation about displaying African arts in museums.
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Hear Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara discuss her research on race-based slavery, Black settlement, abolition, and Black rights in the 18th and 19th century Midwest on The Journal of American History podcast.
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Preference will be given to students in the field of Literature, History, Cultural Studies, Theatre, and Art History, but all with excellent written and verbal skills and strong attention to detail are welcome and encouraged to apply.
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The Department of African American Studies is hiring! 📣 We are currently seeking graduate students as Readers and Graders for 100-300 level courses.
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...she introduces us to an unforgettable character who fled from country to country as fighting advanced, was captured by Nazis and outwitted them in a daring escape, and risked it all in a personal fight for a life of love, freedom, beauty and dignity in a world set against him." (PRH)
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"Award-winning historian Ethelene Whitmire unearthed a trove of Reed’s letters when she met one of his descendants at a lecture, awed that she’d heard so little of this charismatic man and his fascinating true story of love and war. In "The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram",
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Dr. Ethelene Whitmire's book cover for "The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram" features a large black and white portrait of Reed Peggram, and WWII architecture in photographs collaged behind him.
Dr. Ethelene Whitmire's latest book, "The Remarkable Life of Reed Peggram", the true story of a queer, Black man living in Europe during 20th century, will be released from Penguin Random House on February 3, 2026.
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Currently, her research focuses on ways to center Blackness within the physics classroom and how physics can aid in Black liberation.
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Ayshea is a founding member of SoCo. Before her time at UW-Madison, she received her bachelor’s in physics with minors in Mathematics and Chemistry from Wichita State University.
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We're continuing our SoulFolk Collective research fellow spotlights this week by showcasing the work of Ayshea Banes, an incoming M.A. student in African American Studies and incoming Ph.D. student in Curriculum & Instruction.
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📍 Must currently live in the area for at least 30 days and identify as Black (African American, African, Afro Caribbean, Afro Latino)
📸 Optional photos & stories may be archived or published (with your permission).
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🔹 Participate in a 1-hour sit-down interview or a 2-hour ride-along conversation.
🔹 Share photos and stories that illuminate what it’s like to be Black in Madison
🔹 Receive a $25 gift card for your time.
🔹 Help shape a space built for and by the Black community.
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The SoulFolk Collective is partnering with The Center for Black Excellence and Culture to better understand how Black people who live in Madison experience space and culture—and to learn how The Center can support you.
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Calling Black Residents of Madison, WI! 📍We want to hear your stories—how you move through and experience Madison, Wisconsin, and the surrounding areas.
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The SoulFolk Collective
SoCo from left to right: Ayshea Banes, Micah Sagers, Curtis O’Dwyer, Izabela de Souza, Griffin Granberry, Jessica Lee Stovall, Angela Fitzgerald, Jada Young, Kaleb Autman, Ziyen Curtis, Lisa OyoluW.E....
africanamericanstudies.wisc.edu/soulfolk-col...
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Today, we're highlighting the work and perspective of Curriculum & Instruction Ph.D. student, Izabela de Souza, a founding and invaluable member of SoCo. "Being with and researching alongside others allows us to dream and achieve collectively," de Souza shares.
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This summer, research fellows in The SoulFolk Collective, the first research lab in the Department of African American Studies, are collecting data, imagery, and conducting oral history interviews in the Madison community to further their solution-based research.
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A growing resource of short stories of enslaved people who attempted to seize their freedom by escaping.
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