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The Black Studies Podcast

Hosted by Ashley Newby and John E. Drabinski, The Black Studies Podcast is a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field.

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Alex Gil - Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University (opens the original)

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    Today’s conversation is with Alex Gil, who teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, where he conducts introductory and advanced courses in digital humanities, and runs project-based learning and collective research initiatives. Before joining Yale, Alex served for ten years as Digital Scholarship Librarian at Columbia University, where he co-created and nurtured the Butler Studio and the Group for Experimental Methods in Humanistic Research. His research interests

  2. Issue · Sep 28, 2026

    Samantha Pinto - Department of English, University of Texas, Austin (opens the original)

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    Today’s conversation is with Samantha Pinto, who teaches in the Department of English at University of Texas, Austin. Along with many essays on African American literature and Black feminism, she is the co-editor with Alexandra S. Moore of Writing Beyond the State: Post-Sovereign Approaches to Human Rights in Literary Studies (2020) and with Jennifer C. Nash of The Routledge Companion to Intersec

  3. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    Zahra Caldwell - Department of Ethnic and Gender Studies, Westfield State University (opens the original)

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    Today's conversation is with Zahra Caldwell, who teaches in the Department of Ethnic and Gender Studies Department at Westfield State University. She is an interdisciplinary cultural historian who teaches in the fields of History, Black Studies, and Women’s Studies. Her professional, community, and academic work is focused on unpacking and expanding the definition of resistance within the long struggle for African American freedom, particularly regarding African American women, artistic labor, a

  4. Issue · Sep 23, 2026

    Will Mosley - Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Maryland (opens the original)

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    This is John Drabinski and you’re listening to The Black Studies podcast, a series of conversations examining the history of the field. Our conversations engage with a wide range of activists and scholars - senior figures in the field, graduate students, and everyone in between, culture workers, and political organizers - in order to explore the cultural and political meaning of Black Studies as an area of inquiry and its critical methods.Today’s conversation is with Will Mosley, who teaches in

  5. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh - Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University (opens the original)

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