News & Announcements Archive

Routledge Publishes Graduate Student Samanda Robinson

Routledge Publishes Graduate Student Samanda Robinson

Sixth-year PhD Candidate, Samanda Robinson, was recently published in The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South as a contributing author. As the publisher states, “The Routledge Companion to […]

The Critique of Nonviolence: Martin Luther King, Jr., and Philosophy

The Critique of Nonviolence: Martin Luther King, Jr., and Philosophy

Professor Mark Christian Thompson’s new book is now available from Stanford University Press. You can read more about it on our Faculty Books page.

Graduate Student Aditya Bahl Awarded Fellowship

Graduate Student Aditya Bahl Awarded Fellowship

Aditya has been awarded a Junior Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies. The announcement can be found here. As you will see, the information on Aditya’s award is […]

Associate Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson featured in The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry

Associate Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson featured in The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry

The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry has published a discussion forum on Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s latest book, The African Novel of Ideas. It includes responses to the book by Cajetan […]

Traveling, Writing, and Finding a Career in Digital Media

Traveling, Writing, and Finding a Career in Digital Media

Alumnus Rachel Schnalzer ’15 has successfully built a career in travel and writing. She’s the audience engagement editor at the Los Angeles Times, where she writes the Escapes travel newsletter, lives in Germany and works remotely. Read more about her work in the Spring 2022 issue of Arts & Sciences Magazine.

By the Book: Prof. Mark Christian Thompson in Conversation with Tobi Haslett

By the Book: Prof. Mark Christian Thompson in Conversation with Tobi Haslett

Mark Christian Thompson, author of ‘Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory’ in conversation with Tobi Haslett.

Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson Joins YouTube Series on African Philosophy

Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson Joins YouTube Series on African Philosophy

Professor Jeanne-Marie Jackson, alongside Omedi Ochieng, recently took part in a new YouTube series “African Philosophy Conversations,” hosted by Bruce Janz. 

Forthcoming Article in “Renaissance Quarterly” by Professor Sharon Achinstein

Forthcoming Article in “Renaissance Quarterly” by Professor Sharon Achinstein

Sharon Achinstein’s article, “A Common Humanity: From Poetry to Philosophy in Hugo Grotius,” which considers how Grotius’s theorizing of international law, specifically on captives and the enslaved, was shaped by […]

Professor Mark Christian Thompson Discusses Dean Celenza’s New Book, and the State of Humanities Teaching

Professor Mark Christian Thompson Discusses Dean Celenza’s New Book, and the State of Humanities Teaching

In this age of disinformation and political polarization, Christopher Celenza, Dean of the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences joined SNF Agora for a discussion of our collective search for […]

“Phenomenal Blackness” Discussed in New Books Podcast with Brittney Edmonds of UW – Madison

“Phenomenal Blackness” Discussed in New Books Podcast with Brittney Edmonds of UW – Madison

Prof. Mark Christian Thompson’s book, Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory (University of Chicago Press, 2022) examines the changing interdisciplinary investments of key mid-century African American writers and thinkers, showing how their investments […]