2019
Freeden Blume Oeur (Tufts University)
“Beneath the Veil: The Du Boisian Creed and the Psychic Life of Race” (video)
“Beneath the Veil: The Du Boisian Creed and the Psychic Life of Race” (video)
Jay Cephas (Northeastern University)
Adam Dahl (UMass Amherst)
“Constructing Colonial Peoples: W. E. B. Du Bois’ Democratic Transnationalism” (video)
“Constructing Colonial Peoples: W. E. B. Du Bois’ Democratic Transnationalism” (video)
Victoria I. Rizo Lenshyn (UMass Amherst)
Alexandria Russell (Rutgers University)
“W. E. B. Du Bois & The Phillis Wheatley Brand: Mapping Black Women’s Memorialization in the Early Twentieth Century” (video)
“W. E. B. Du Bois & The Phillis Wheatley Brand: Mapping Black Women’s Memorialization in the Early Twentieth Century” (video)
Phillip Luke Sinitiere (College of Biblical Studies)
“Remembering History: Commemorating W. E. B. Du Bois’s Legacy” (video)
“Remembering History: Commemorating W. E. B. Du Bois’s Legacy” (video)
Sarah Holm Tanzi (UMass Amherst)
“Facts vs. Feelings: The Shifting Role of W. E. B. Du Bois as Professor and Propagandist in Pursuit of Social Change”
“Facts vs. Feelings: The Shifting Role of W. E. B. Du Bois as Professor and Propagandist in Pursuit of Social Change”
Venus Green
“Crowned in Curled Mists: An Exploration of Du Bois’s Meditations on Black Women’s Oppression, The Power of Black Women’s Aesthetics, and Black Women’s Role in the Futurity of Black Civilization”
“Crowned in Curled Mists: An Exploration of Du Bois’s Meditations on Black Women’s Oppression, The Power of Black Women’s Aesthetics, and Black Women’s Role in the Futurity of Black Civilization”
Jingjing Zhang (Zhejiang International Studies University)
Eliza Araújo
Swait Birla
Heather Brinn
Biko Caruthers
Samantha Davis
Jyoti Iyer
Michael Jirik
Peter Kent-Stoll
Stacie Klinowski
Garbriela Stevenson
Goyland Williams
Aaron Yates
2018
Richard D. Benson II (Spelman College)
“Funding the ‘Revolution’: Black Power, White Church Money, and the Financial Architects of Black Radicalism 1966-1976”
“Funding the ‘Revolution’: Black Power, White Church Money, and the Financial Architects of Black Radicalism 1966-1976”
Juliana Góes (UMass Amherst)
“Du Bois on Brazil: the Construction and Deconstruction of the Racial Democracy Myth”
“Du Bois on Brazil: the Construction and Deconstruction of the Racial Democracy Myth”
Marc Lorenc (UMass Amherst)
Lisa McLeod (Guilford College)
“W.E.B. Du Bois, A World Search for Democracy”
“W.E.B. Du Bois, A World Search for Democracy”
Thomas Meagher (UConn)
“Darkwater as Philosophical Classic”
“Darkwater as Philosophical Classic”
Joshua Myers (Howard University)
“Of Black Study: A Critique of Disciplinary Knoweldges”
“Of Black Study: A Critique of Disciplinary Knoweldges”
Benjamin Nolan (UMass Amherst)
Josh Odam (UMass Amherst)
Camesha Scruggs (UMass Amherst)
Phillip Luke Sinitiere (College of Biblical Studies)
“Democracy, Education & Peace: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Late Career Life and Legacy”
“Democracy, Education & Peace: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Late Career Life and Legacy”
2017
E. Howard Ashford (UMass Amherst)
“Understanding the Southern Experience: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Southern Investigation”
“Understanding the Southern Experience: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Southern Investigation”
Charisse Burden-Stelly (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
“The Radical Horizon of Black Betrayal: Toward a Theory of Antiradical/Antiblack Subjacency”
“The Radical Horizon of Black Betrayal: Toward a Theory of Antiradical/Antiblack Subjacency”
Gaidi Faraj
“Unearthing the Underground: A study of radical activism in the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army”
“Unearthing the Underground: A study of radical activism in the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army”
Brittany M. Frederick (UMass Amherst)
“Expanding the Talented Tenth”: Du Bois and the Educational Evolution of UMass Amherst”
“Expanding the Talented Tenth”: Du Bois and the Educational Evolution of UMass Amherst”
Michael J. Saman
“The Voice of Time: Classical German Thought and the Ethics of Progress in W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk”
“The Voice of Time: Classical German Thought and the Ethics of Progress in W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk”
Erika R. Williams (Emerson College)
“Tales from Du Bois: The Poetics and Politics of Cross-Caste Romance”
“Tales from Du Bois: The Poetics and Politics of Cross-Caste Romance”
2016
John Hyland (English, University of Buffalo and Haverford College)
“The forest of melody: Black Diasporic Poetics and the Sounding of the Environment”
“The forest of melody: Black Diasporic Poetics and the Sounding of the Environment”
Nicholas T. Rinehart (English, Harvard University)
“‘These illegitimate children of my thought’: The dramatic work and criticism of W. E. B. Du Bois”
“‘These illegitimate children of my thought’: The dramatic work and criticism of W. E. B. Du Bois”
2015
Nneka Dennie (Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst)
“Black Male Feminism and the Evolution of Du Boisian Thought, 1903-1920” (read)
“Black Male Feminism and the Evolution of Du Boisian Thought, 1903-1920” (read)
Crystal Webster (Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst)
“‘The Transfiguring Soul of Childhood’: Du Bois and the Social, Political, and Cultural Role of Black Children”
“‘The Transfiguring Soul of Childhood’: Du Bois and the Social, Political, and Cultural Role of Black Children”
2014
Brandon Byrd (Assistant Professor of History, Mississippi State University and University of North Carolina)
“The Problem of Haiti as it Stands Today: W.E.B. Du Bois on the U.S. Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934″
“The Problem of Haiti as it Stands Today: W.E.B. Du Bois on the U.S. Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934″
Donald Geesling (Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst)
“Black Song and the Talented Tenth: The Musical Imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois, 1902-1942”
“Black Song and the Talented Tenth: The Musical Imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois, 1902-1942”
2013
Horace D. Ballard Jr. (Public Humanities, History of Art, and American Studies, Brown University)
“Ethics and Aesthetics: Citizenship and Form”
“Ethics and Aesthetics: Citizenship and Form”
Emahunn Raheem Ali Campbell (Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst)
“W.E.B. Du Bois’s Literary Interventions on Black Criminality”
“W.E.B. Du Bois’s Literary Interventions on Black Criminality”
Daniel Chard (History, UMass Amherst)
Exploring the history of ’60s-’70s radical groups allows Chard to investigate the origins of the first police institutions in the U.S. dedicated to domestic “counter-terrorism”
Exploring the history of ’60s-’70s radical groups allows Chard to investigate the origins of the first police institutions in the U.S. dedicated to domestic “counter-terrorism”
2012
J. Anthony Guillory (Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst)
“The Physical Uplift of Race”
“The Physical Uplift of Race”
Desmond Jagmohan (Government, Cornell)
“Creating Community, Cultivating Citizens, and Interrogating Jim Crow: The Political Thought of Booker T. Washington”
“Creating Community, Cultivating Citizens, and Interrogating Jim Crow: The Political Thought of Booker T. Washington”
2011
Markeysha Davis (Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst)
“Daring propaganda for the beauty of the Human Mind: Redefinition and Reaffirmation of the New Black Self in Poetry and Drama of the 1960s and 1970s”
“Daring propaganda for the beauty of the Human Mind: Redefinition and Reaffirmation of the New Black Self in Poetry and Drama of the 1960s and 1970s”
Ricky Fayne (English, Northwestern)
“‘The Shadow of a Mighty Negro Past’: Du Bois and the Re-memory of Africa in to the Black America”
“‘The Shadow of a Mighty Negro Past’: Du Bois and the Re-memory of Africa in to the Black America”