Please come meet other LGBTQ+ faculty and hear brief remarks by Provost Wendell Pritchett. The Center’s LGBTQ+ Faculty Diversity Working Group is dedicated to ensuring faculty voices and needs are heard, increasing LGBTQ+ faculty presence on campus via hiring and retention…

Jody Benjamin is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. He received his PhD from Harvard University in the Department of African and African American Studies in 2016. His book manuscript, “The Texture of Change: Cloth, Commerce, and History in…

Trained as both historian and computer engineer, Ademideʼs research into the history of west African cities combines a set of interdisciplinary interests in urban history, technology, cartography and spatial humanities. She joined UC Riversideʼs History department in July 2015…

David Amponsah is an assistant professor in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 2015. He is a historian who researches the intersection of religion and society in Africa and its diaspora, with…

This new exhibition—part art installation, part memorial, and part call to action—sheds light on the “Tivoli Incursion” through compelling video and audio footage featuring firsthand accounts of people directly impacted by the violence.

Is there a “feminist peace?” Are states that exhibit domestic gender equality more peaceful internationally? Seemingly with little engagement with existing literature on women, peace and security, recent quantitative work has looked to evaluate the relationship between gender…

As an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense, Chelsea Manning disclosed classified documents to WikiLeaks that revealed human rights abuses and corruption connected to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in a…

The Graduate Workshop at The Mitchell Center presents two papers dealing with the interplay of politics and gendered identities. Sarah Khan (Columbia University, Political Science) Making Democracy Work for Women: Evidence from Pakistan (PDF) Joseph Wuest (University of…

The United State of Women (USOW) invites you to their Host Committee Informational Meeting to discuss the Galvanize Program coming to Philadelphia, PA in November. Launched at the United State of Women Summit in June 2016, USOW is committed to being the megaphone for the gender…

Discussants: Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, and Professor of Africana Studies; and Grace L. Sanders Johnson, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Zakiya Luna…