The Black Studies Podcast
The Black Studies Podcast is a Mellon grant sponsored series of conversations examining the history of the field.
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- Sep 11, 2026
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- Jul 6, 2026
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Mabel Wilson - Departments of Architecture and of African American and African Diasporic Studies, Columbia University (opens the original)
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This is Ashley Newby 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, late doctoral 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 Mabel Wilson, who teache
Brandon Byrd - Department of African American Studies, Vanderbilt University (opens the original)
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This is Ashley Newby 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, late doctoral 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 Brandon Byrd, who teache
James Smethurst - Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (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 James Smethurst, who teache
Marcia Chatelain - Department of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania (opens the original)
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This is Ashley Newby 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, late doctoral 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 Marcia Chatelain, Penn P
Yvonne Chireau - Department of Black Studies, Swarthmore College (opens the original)
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This is Ashley Newby 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, late doctoral 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 Yvonne Chireau, Peggy Ch
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