# Department Life

**Source**: https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/department-life
**Parent**: https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/

## Department Life

## Recent Publications

[### Ethnography and the Historical Imagination (2019)](https://www.worldcat.org/title/ethnography-and-the-historical-imagination/oclc/1124339493&referer=brief_results)

[### Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (2020)](https://www.worldcat.org/title/tackys-revolt-the-story-of-an-atlantic-slave-war/oclc/1134534204&referer=brief_result)

[### Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana (2020)](https://www.worldcat.org/title/becoming-free-becoming-black-race-freedom-and-law-in-cuba-virginia-and-louisiana/oclc/1104859661&referer=brief_results)

[### Religion in Gender-Based Violence, Immigration, and Human Rights (2019)](https://www.worldcat.org/title/religion-in-gender-based-violence-immigration-and-human-rights/oclc/1126662739&referer=brief_results)

[### Picasso's Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece (2019)](https://www.dukeupress.edu/picassos-demoiselles)

[### The Cambridge Companion to Richard Wright (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (2019)](https://www.worldcat.org/title/the-cambridge-companion-to-richard-wright/oclc/1085127436&referer=brief_results)

[### Asen : mémoires de fer forgé : Art vodun du Danhomè dans les collections du musée Barbier-Mueller (2020)](https://www.worldcat.org/title/asen-memoires-de-fer-forge-art-vodun-du-danhome-dans-les-collections-du-musee-barbier-mueller-exposition-geneve-musee-barbier-mueller-du-21-novembre-2018-au-26-mai-2019/oclc/1101111634&referer=brief_results)

[### Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? : Essays (2021)](https://wwnorton.com/books/9781631496486)

[### Cuban Studies 48 (Pittsburgh Cuban Studies) (2019)](https://www.worldcat.org/title/cuban-studies/oclc/1032013934&referer=brief_results)

[### Interreligious Curriculum for Peace Education in Nigeria (2019)](https://www.worldcat.org/title/interreligious-curriculum-for-peace-education-in-nigeria-a-praxeological-intervention-for-the-advanced-training-of-religious-leaders/oclc/1105631488&referer=brief_results)

[### The Fugitivities (2019)](https://www.worldcat.org/title/fugitivities/oclc/1152018844&referer=brief_results)

[### Between the sea & the lagoon: an eco-social history of the Anlo of southeastern Ghana, c. 1850 to recent times (2001)](https://www.worldcat.org/title/between-the-sea-the-lagoon-an-eco-social-history-of-the-anlo-of-southeastern-ghana-c-1850-to-recent-times/oclc/48003298&referer=brief_results)

[### Africa's development in historical perspective (2014)](https://www.worldcat.org/title/africas-development-in-historical-perspective/oclc/891825370&referer=brief_results)

## Recent News

[### AAAS Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. Awarded Vilcek Prize for Excellence](/news/aaas-professor-henry-louis-gates-jr-awarded-vilcek-prize-excellence)

February 03, 2025

Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. has been awarded the Vilcek Prize for Excellence. The Vilcek Prize for Excellence is awarded by the Vilcek Foundation in recognition of intellectual and cultural leaders who have had a profound impact on society and contribute a...

[### AAAS Professor Jacob Olupona Interviewed by Harvard Divinity School](/news/aaas-professor-jacob-olupona-interviewed-harvard-divinity-school)

December 09, 2024

The Harvard Divinity School recently sat with AAAS Professor and Department Chair Jacob Olupona to discuss his work and legacy at Harvard. The full interview can be read here.

[### AAAS Professor Daniel Agbiboa Publishes New Article in Political Science and Politics Journal](/news/aaas-professor-daniel-agbiboa-publishes-new-article-political-science-and-politics-journal)

December 09, 2024

AAAS Professor Daniel Agbiboa recently had his article entitled Deep Waters: The Flooding and Climate of Suffering in Nigeria published in the journal PS: Political Science and Politics, by Cambridge University Press. The article can be accessed here.