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• DAAS Student Services Coordinator Katherine Weathers and DAAS Professor Stephen Ward awarded the Cornerstone Award

  Congratulations to Katherine Weathers, Student Services Coordinator, and Professor Stephen Ward on receiving the Cornerstone Award.
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• DAAS Summer Course Development Awards awarded to four DAAS faculty members

  DAAS has four Summer Course Development Award recipients: Stephen Ward, Karyn Lacy, Anne Pitcher, and Howard Stein!
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• DAAS Professor Lorna Goodison honored with 2012 Cultural Medal of Honour Award

  Congratulations to Professor Lorna Goodison, who was one of eight cultural icons honored for their contribution to Jamaica, the Caribbean and the world
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• Semester in Detroit

  Semester in Detroit, directed by Professor Stephen Ward, has its largest cohort ever.
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• Two DAAS faculty members awarded the 2012 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award

  Associate Professor Stephen Ward and Associate Professor Dorceta Taylor to be rewarded the 2012 Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award.
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• DAAS Associate Chair Elisha Renne awarded Guggenheim Fellowship for 2012-2013

  DAAS Associate Chair Elisha Renne is one of three U-M faculty members to be awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship for 2012-2013.
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• DAAS Concentrator Michael Williams awarded Raul Wallenberg International Fellowship

  Michael Williams, a DAAS concentrator, has been awarded the Raul Wallenberg International Fellowship
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• Professor Scott Ellsworth speaks on NPR Radio about the 1921 Riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma and the History Of Race Relations

  Professor Scott Ellsworth speaks about how the 1921 Riot Reveals Tulsa's History Of Race Relations
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• DAAS awarded 2012 NAACP Image Award

  DAAS awarded 2012 NAACP Image Award from University of Michigan chapter of NAACP.
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• PhD Candidate David Green Jr. awarded Visual and Pop Culture Pre-Doctoral Dissertation Award

  
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• DAAS Chair Tiya Miles featured in CNN In America opinion article

  DAAS Chair Tiya Miles featured in CNN article entitled Pain of 'Trail of Tears' shared by Blacks as well as Native Americans
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• DAAS Associate Chair Elisha Renne awarded grant for International IA Pilot-Study Project

  DAAS Associate Chair Elisha Renne awarded a major grant from the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute.
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• We Fought the Law.... DAAS 495 Race Law Stories

  DAAS Professor Martha Jones and DAAS 495 class debute song displaying all the things learned in DAAS 495.
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• DAAS Professor Kelly Askew featured on Spotlight Africa show

  DAAS Professor Kelly Askew will be featured in a radio interview for her documentary film, "Poetry in Motion: 100 Years of Zanzibar's Nadi Ikhwan Safaa."
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• DAAS Program Associate Elizabeth James and the story of her life saving transplant

  DAAS Program Associate and Storyteller Elizabeth James now has some stories of her own to tell. She was diagnosed in 2006 with cryptogenic cirrhosis of the liver, and survived a life-saving liver transplant last August by the U-M Transplant Center.
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• DAAS Alumna Shanesha Brooks Tatum releases book Reading African American Experiences in the Obama Era: Theory, Advocacy, Activism

  Shanesha R. F. Brooks Tatum is a graduate of the American Culture PhD program with a Graduate Student Certificate from DAAS.
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• DAAS Chair Miles to appear on National Public Radio

  Chair Miles appears on NPR to speak about shedding light on the unexplored history of Native American and African-American slavery in Michigan.
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• DAAS Chair Tiya Miles' blog in Huffington Post about the need to protect Belle Isle.

  Blog in the Huffington Post written by Chair Miles about the need to protect Detroit’s Belle Isle park.
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• Dr. King's Vision for Economic Justice: Focus on Detroit

  DAAS Professor Martha Jones helps coordinate Dr. King's Vision for Economic Justice: Focus on Detroit event
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• Two DAAS professors honored for their contributions to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial

  Professor James Chaffers and Professor Jon Lockard honored with two awards at the 25th Annual MLK Symposium.
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