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🤩 WOW!!! Let's talk everything The Gilded Age 😃 Join us for a lively conversation between Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar, acclaimed historian, professor and co-executive producer of HBO's The Gilded Age, and Tiffany Griffith, as they discuss what one of television's most ✨️ celebrated period dramas can teach us about American history‼️💫

#thegildedage #hbo #television #america250 #streamer taken in Lawrenceville, Georgia by @emoryaasdept

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We are delighted to announce that Emory University's African American Studies PhD Program is currently accepting applications for Fall 2027 admission!

For more details please visit https://aas.emory.edu/graduate/

The link is in our bio!

#africanamericanstudies #blackstudies #emoryaas #emoryaasphd by @emoryaasdept

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21 days ago

We are pleased to announce that the Department of History will be hosting a Roundtable, America at 250: Beyond the Celebrations, on Thursday, Sept. 17 from 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm in the Carlos Museum on the third floor in Ackerman Hall. Featured panelists are Patrick Allitt, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Malinda Maynor Lowery, and Chris Suh with History PhD candidates, Andrew Aldridge and Emilie Cunning and History Honors Students, Eloise So and Teddy Valentino serving as facilitators.

This event is co-sponsored by: The Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies Initiative; the Center for Native American & Indigenous Studies; the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies; the Departments of African American Studies, American Studies, English, Latin American, Latinx, and Caribbean Studies, and Religion.

This event is open to all in the Emory Community, and we hope you will encourage your students and colleagues to attend.

We look forward to seeing you there on Sept. 17th. @emorycollege @emoryasc @emorynasa @emoryaasdept @emorylalcs @emoryenglishdept @emoryreligiondept @emoryjewishstudies @emoryoxford @tval9020 @emilie.cunning @mlowery1972 @ericaarmstrongdunbar @andrew__eric @emoryuniversity taken in Michael C. Carlos Museum by @emoryaasdept

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The Free Book table in the @emoryhistory dept is starting to load up so that it is ready for students to return. Outside Bowden Hall, Rm 118. More books to come soon. Topics for Fall courses & the research our grad & undergrad students are doing. Napoleon! Jane Austen! Africa! India! African-Am history! Colonialism! Post-colonialism! Roman history! Medieval history! Turabian (bc one of you definitely needs a copy 😂). Check it out. Faculty will continue to put books on it all year. (Esp Dr. Miller, one of the many profs who are retiring. She cannot walk across her dining room bc she moved all of her books home from her office. Please help her out. Take some of the books off the table. :) ). @emorycollege @laneygradschool @emoryaasdept @emoryafricanstudies @emoryenglishdept @emorylinguistics @emorylalcs @emorylingcircle @emorycollege.advising @emory2030_ #emory2030 #emory2029 #emory2028 #emory2027 taken in Henry L Bowden Hall by @emoryaasdept

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2 months ago

Creativity Conversations, Season 1, Episode 10 is up and runnin'!!!

In this episode, musician, composer, educator, and minister Reverend Doctor Dwight Andrews talks with host Jay Hammond about the crossovers between music, spirituality, and making the world a better place. The Reverend Doctor's extensive career path is explored, including his partnership as musical director with August Wilson for plays including Fences, Seven Guitars, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.

To listen to this episode and more, click the link in our bio. by @emoryaasdept

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AAS is proud to share that Dr. Kyrah Malika Daniels and AAS major Laniah Bowdery were featured, showcasing the experience of research at Emory University and the collaboration between faculty and undergraduate researchers.

Watch "Meet the Researcher - Pathways Center | Emory College of Arts & Sciences" at the link in our bio!

Two undergraduate researchers. Two faculty mentors. Four projects that couldn't look more different on paper — and one shared instinct to recover the stories that almost got left behind. by @emoryaasdept

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"Celebrated public intellectual Eddie S. Glaude Jr., the New York Times bestselling author of “Begin Again,” comes to Atlanta for a blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us. A Cappella Books welcomes Glaude to The Performing Arts Studio at Emory University on Wednesday, June 3 at 7 PM for a discussion of his highly anticipated new book, “America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries.” Glaude will appear in conversation with Erica Armstrong Dunbar, award-winning historian, professor, and author of the National Book Award finalist “Never Caught.” Tickets include a signed first edition of “America, U.S.A.”

In “America, U.S.A.,” Glaude presents a groundbreaking analysis of the vicious cycles of American history and the country’s enduring refusal to face its true nature, especially at the moments when national anniversaries steer us back toward the mythology meant to disguise the truth. Centered around the major celebrations of America’s milestone birthdays across 250 years of history, the book offers a riveting look at the battles over who has a stake in writing the American story.

Tix available at @acappellabooks

#eddieglaudejr #booktour #atlantaevents #bookstagram #acappellabooks by @emoryaasdept

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4 months ago

Emory’s Department of African American Studies invites you to read our Spring 2026 Newsletter.

Read it at the link in our bio!

#emoryaas #emorymmuf #emory #emoryuniversity #blackstudies #africanamericanstudies by @emoryaasdept

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5 months ago

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Apply at the link in bio!

The Department of African American Studies in the Emory College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University invites applications for a residential Postdoctoral Fellow with a specialization in African American and/or African Diaspora medicine, medical practices, medical research, bioethics, or reproductive justice. The program welcomes applications from candidates whose work focuses on medicine broadly within African American and African Diasporic populations, including but not limited in geographic scope to the U.S., the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, and/or the Diaspora. This position is based in Atlanta, GA, and must be performed fully on-site. As this is an early career position, applicants must have received their PhD no earlier than six years prior to the application deadline. The appointment term is August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2027 and is non-renewable. The salary is $60,000. The successful candidate must be prepared to teach three courses (1 may be a graduate course depending on departmental needs) and work closely with the department to create programming and curricula to support our major.

#emory #emoryaas #callforapplications #postdoctoralfellowships
#postdoc by @emoryaasdept

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5 months ago

“What Emotion Catches Your Ear’s Attention? How anxiety affects what you hear”
Deanna Sharpe Acoustics Lay Language Paper Published.

#mmuf #emorymmuf by @emoryaasdept

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5 months ago

Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together

#aas #emoryaas #africanamericanstudies by @emoryaasdept

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5 months ago

On Thursday, April 23, 2026, The Department of African American Studies is excited and honored to have Washington Bureau Chief for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Tia Mitchell join us at 4 PM for the annual Grace Towns Hamilton Lecture.

RSVP at the link in our bio!

Tia Mitchell is Washington Bureau Chief for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, covering national politics for a Georgia audience. She also shares her political expertise on national outlets like CNN, NBC News, CBS News and News Nation. Tia is a co-host of the AJC's "Politically Georgia" podcast.
Tia is active with the National Association of Black Journalists, where she served as programming co-chair for four consecutive national conventions and is the immediate past chair of the NABJ Political Task Force. She is also active in her local NABJ chapter, the Washington Association of Black Journalists, vice president of the Washington Press Club Foundation Board of Directors and a member of the Gridiron Club, Washington's oldest and most prestigious journalism organization.
Tia is an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and a lifetime member of the Florida A&M University National Alumni Association. She graduated from FAMU with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. Tia is originally from Louisville, Kentucky.

#emory #emoryaas #africanamericanstudies #ajc #gracetownshamilton by @emoryaasdept

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