Congratulations are in order for Tabb Center director and AGHI board member Joseph Plaster, who won the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction for 2024 this week. The award, among the honors bestowed by The Publishing Triangle, went to Plaster's recent book, "Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin" (Duke...
April 7 saw the screening of "Devoti Tutti," the final event in AGHI's Humanities on the Mall series in DC for this academic year. Updates about the fall to come. And make sure you join us at Bird in Hand on April 29 for our last Humanities in the Village! More info in our calendar.
AGHI joins the rest of the Johns Hopkins and Baltimore communities mourning the recent loss of Professor Shani Mott, a beloved and revered leader in Africana Studies, History, and housing equality.
Last week, AGHI hosted Professor Merve Emre (Wesleyan) as this year’s Macksey Lecture speaker for a double-header in both Baltimore and DC. Well known as a public essayist, interviewer extraordinaire, […]
Our new series, Humanities on the Mall, filled our mini-agora at 555 Penn on Sunday, March 3rd with guest speakers Sean Carroll and Hahrie Han, chatting about what the physics of atoms and social sciences of individuals can learn from each other.
AGHI is pleased to announce two postdoctoral fellowships which are now public, to begin in academic year 2024–25: a public humanities fellowship collaborating between the Tabb Center and AGHI; and the Society of Fellows for the new academic year.
How do we build, nurture, and sustain communities of learning and mutual trust on college campuses? This question brought together three big hitters on the education scene from JHU and […]
Classes are back and so are AGHI's public humanities events for the new Spring 2024 semester. We kick things off TONIGHT (Monday, January 29th) and carry on through the late spring. See our calendar for the full list.
Happy new year! We're celebrating by digging into some great books, all recommended by the amazing faculty and staff across JHU. (We even spied some suggestions from AGHI's director and affiliates...) And don't forget to shop local and support your local library.
Learn more about how Joseph Plaster—AGHI board member, Curator in Public Humanities, and Tabb Center Director—is collaborating with artists, curators, and community members on a new public humanities initiative. (Pictured: Sheridan Libraries Africana Archivist Tonika Berkley, Public Humanities Fellow Nicoletta Daríta de la Brown, and Plaster).
