Exciting news! A faculty group led by Dr. Cynthia Young, Head of the Department of African American Studies, (and including myself) was a awarded a multi year, $225,000 grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Our Sawyer Seminar will center on "Racial Disposability and Cultures of Resistance".
Read more about it here: http://news.psu.edu/story/486207/2017/10/04/research/penn-state-receives-225000-grant-andrew-w-mellon-foundation
Be on the look out for exciting programming coming soon!
