IAS is happy to announce that Professor Mariana Candido has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
This honor recognizes Mariana’s decades of outstanding scholarship on the history of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, African history, and women and the African diaspora.
We are so proud of her many accomplishments.
Congratulations, Mariana!
Historian Walter C. Rucker and anthropologist Bayo Holsey of Emory College will co-lead a yearlong examination of the histories of slavery in the Black Atlantic, as well as the struggles against it. The work is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Congratulations to Professor Adriana Chira for her recent publication “Freedom with Local Bonds: Custom and Manumission in the Age of Emancipation” in the American Historical Review!
Emory Distinguished Professor Emerita Corinne Kratz (anthropology and African Studies) is the 2021 recipient of the Council for Museum Anthropology Lifetime Achievement Award/Distinguished Service Award.
The Council for Museum Anthropology (CMA) is a section of the American Anthropological Association. This award recognizes CMA members whose careers demonstrate extraordinary achievements that have advanced museum anthropology through collections work, community collaborations, exhibitions, publications, public programming and outreach, teaching, policy development and more. While many anthropologists distinguish themselves through their works, the Lifetime Achievement/Distinguished Service Award recognizes those who, over the course of their careers, have truly helped to define and or reshape the field of anthropology in and of museums.
Kratz was noted for redefining both museum anthropology and critical museology during her near 50-year career, especially at the intersections between these fields and African Studies. She will receive the award in November.
