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“Envisioning the academy as a site of critical engagement for social transformation. . .”

IRAAS is an intellectual community that bridges scholarship, teaching, and public life.

We envision the project of African American Studies as a multi-disciplinary enterprise. Our faculty employ an array of theoretical approaches and methodological strategies to examine historical and contemporary formations in black culture, politics, and society.

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IRAAS presents the 2013 Conference "Challenging Punishment"
October 4 & 5, 2013
Featuring scholars and researchers; health and legal professionals; and citizen advocates in discussion of the relevant social, legal, and public health issues raised by the War on Drugs and mass incarceration.

Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin & Dr. Carl Hart
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II and High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society

IRAAS presents the 2013 Conference "Challenging Punishment"
October 4 & 5, 2013
Featuring scholars and researchers; health and legal professionals; and citizen advocates in discussion of the relevant social, legal, and public health issues raised by the War on Drugs and mass incarceration.

Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin & Dr. Carl Hart
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II and High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society

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Featured Faculty Book

Dr. Farah Griffin
Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II
Dr. Carl Hart
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society

 

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Featured Faculty

Mabel WilsonFaculty Fellow Mabel Wilson is an Associate Professor and is author of Negro Building: Black Americans in the World of Fairs and Museums focusing on black Americans’ participation in world’s fairs, Emancipation expositions, and early black grassroots museums and tracing the evolution of black public history from the Civil War through the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
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IRAAS News

  • IRAAS Professors Carla Shedd & Dorian Warren individually awarded Columbia Provost’s Junior Faculty Grant for contributions to the University’s diversity goals.
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  • IRAAS Faculty Kevin Fellezs is the Co-Winner of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music - US Branch's 2012 WOODY GUTHRIE BOOK AWARD for the most distinguished English language monograph in popular music studies published during 2011.
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  • IRAAS Faculty Fellow Carl Hart researches drug effects in humans to separate myth from reality in the Columbia College Today.
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  • Souls Journal: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society is now housed at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For information regarding Souls Journal please visit their website:
    www.uic.edu/depts/oaa/souls/
  • IRAAS Faculty Fellow Kellie Jones' curates show "Now Dig This!' moves to MoMA PS1.
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  • IRAAS Faculty Fellow Samuel K. Roberts writes an op-ed piece on the war on drugs in the Huffington Post.
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