In this interactive talk focusing on her most recent book Black Girls and How We Fail Them, award-winning scholar Dr. Aria S. Halliday will highlight commonalities in popular streaming platform films and television to consider how Black girls are represented and how they respond. This talk promises to pique your interest in cultural studies, girlhood… continue reading
December 4th, 2025 • 4:30-6:30pm Featuring: • Zoe Bambara, Cultural Worker, Organizer, and Full Spectrum & Prison Doula • Michele Lamarr-Suggs, Certified Nurse Midwife, Penn Medicine • Lana Colquhoun, Full Spectrum Doula • Dr. Mali Collins, PhD,Assistant Professor of African American & African Diaspora Studies at American University and Visiting Professor at the Institute of… continue reading
We are delighted to share that Dr. Palak Vashist successfully defended her dissertation, “Stitching Age and Labor: Child Laborers, Factory Schools, and Colonial ‘Protection’ in Bombay Textile Mills (1880–1911),” on September 9, 2025. Dr. Vashist will soon join the Institute for Spatial History Innovation at the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of History as a Research… continue reading
Dr. Rashmi Kumari will be joining Mahindra University based in Hyderabad, India as an Assistant Professor in the School of Education.
We are pleased to announce that our first-year PhD student, Ameena Ruffin, has earned a prestigious Presidential Graduate Fellowship for her doctoral studies in Childhood Studies at Rutgers University–Camden. These highly selective fellowships recognize and support a small number of outstanding graduate student candidates at Rutgers. Congratulations to Ameena on this significant achievement! We look… continue reading
We are pleased to share the exciting news that Anusha Iyer and Mary Byrne, PhD have both been awarded graduate fellowships for the 2025-2026 IRW Seminar, “Shouting Fire? Feminism, Academic Freedom, and Democracy.” This prestigious fellowship recognizes their outstanding academic achievements and commitment to advancing important discussions in these critical areas. Anusha and Mary will… continue reading
