Discovery: Research at Princeton
Findings, feature articles, books and awards from Princeton University researchers
By Jamie Saxon Simon Gikandi, the Class of 1943 University Professor of English, and Chika Okeke-Agulu, professor of art and archaeology and African American studies, have been elected corresponding fellows of the British Academy, in Continue Reading →
Scholars examine British colonialism’s enduring influence on medicine and race Continue Reading →
University of Chicago Press, April 2022 Autumn Womack, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English As the nineteenth century came to a close and questions concerning the future of African American life reached a Continue Reading →
Both white and Black candidates engage in “racial distancing” — the practice of purposefully signaling to white voters that a candidate is not beholden to the interests of racial minorities, LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, assistant professor of politics, details in her recent book. Continue Reading →
Ruha Benjamin, associate professor of African American studies, created the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab to explore how data are misinterpreted or intentionally twisted through stories and narratives. Continue Reading →
Weisenfeld’s research tracks the rise in psychiatry as a field of science and the parallel ascent of the discipline’s racialized theories about African American religious practices and mental health. Continue Reading →
Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see black children as deserving of humanity. Continue Reading →
By Denise Valenti Tera Hunter, the Edwards Professor of American History and a professor of history and African American studies, received three prizes for her 2017 book, Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage Continue Reading →
Author: Kinohi Nishikawa, assistant professor of English and African American studies Publisher: University of Chicago Press, November 2018 The uncontested center of the black pulp fiction universe for more than four decades was Los Angeles Continue Reading →
For her new book, Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (Harvard University Press, 2017), Tera Hunter, a professor of history and African American studies, meticulously researched court records, legal Continue Reading →
Research on the 1970s urban housing crisis exposes a familiar history By Catherine Zandonella PREDATORY LENDERS. Subprime and no-doc loans. Mortgage-backed securities. Mass foreclosures that disproportionately impacted minority homeowners. Sound like 2008? It was 1972. Continue Reading →
STACEY SINCLAIR WAS AWARE OF INEQUALITY AT A YOUNG AGE. ”On some level I was always interested in injustice,” said Sinclair, an associate professor of psychology and African American studies. “As a 7-year-old, I wanted Continue Reading →
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