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Dr. Kwasi Ampene Restores Stolen African Works
Professor Kwasi Ampene played a significant role in returning antiquities to West African’s Asante kingdom. Read more at TuftsNow
March 7, 2024
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CHAT Honors New Research in the Humanities
CHAT's Open House event on March 6 was a celebration of the new publications in the humanities, humanistic social sciences and the fine arts. Congratulations to all of the faculty who published/performed/created in 2023 and 2024.
March 7, 2024
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CHAT & Music Department screen "Gone to the Village" in Distler Theater
On February 29, CHAT was honored to screen the documentary film "Gone to the Village," in conjunction with the Music Department at Tufts.
March 4, 2024
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Congratulations Noe Montez
Congratulations Noe Montez (TDPS) for his new book available from Routledge Press, The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance.
February 29, 2024
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CHAT Welcomed Professor Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh to campus, 2/8
CHAT was delighted to host a discussion with Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh and Panelists for a discussion about the religious cultures of enslaved women.
February 16, 2024
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Hear Diego Luis discuss his new book on Book Breaks, Sunday, 2/11
Diego Luis will be a guest on Book Breaks on Sunday, 2/11 at 2 p.m. ET, discussing his new book, The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History.
February 7, 2024
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Congratulations to our 2024-2025 CHAT Faculty Fellows
CHAT is delighted to announce our Faculty Fellows team for 2024-2025.
January 29, 2024
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Congratulations to Courtney Sato, NEH Grant winner
Congratulations to Dr. Courtney Sato, winner of the NEH Grant for her work, Pacific Internationalisms: Asian American Mobility, Gender, and Empire in the Interwar Period.
January 25, 2024
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Congratulations to Kendra Field, Kerri Greenidge, and Kyera Singleton
Congratulations to the SCL team for the upcoming City of Boston grant to study history of slavery in Boston.
January 24, 2024
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Now Accepting Dissertation Fellow Applications for 2024-2025. Apply by March 1
CHAT is now accepting applications for PhD Candidates who are completing their dissertations to join us as fellows for the
January 23, 2024
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New book by Dr. Diego Luis available
Congratulations to CHAT Fellow, Dr. Diego Luis, on his new book out this month, The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History . Available now from Harvard University Press!
January 17, 2024
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Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Applebaum, NEH Grant winner
Congratulations to Dr. Rachel Applebaum of the Department of History, winner of the 2023 NEH winner for her work, A Global History of Russian: From Soviet World Language to Putin’s “Russian World,”
January 17, 2024