Humanities & Culture
Unearthing Rhode Island History
A dig at a 19th-century College Hill home unveils stories about the textile industry, the European immigrant experience, and life in the Gilded Age.
Love & Joy
A course on African American culture cotaught by Professor Tricia Rose ’87 AM, ’93 PhD, and Professor Andre Willis—whose vigorous debates are part of their happy marriage—serves as a model for antiracism and radical love.
Divided Lives
At the dawn of Mao’s China, Professor Zhuqing Li’s aunts were separated by opposing ideologies.
No More Excuses
U.S. histories often neglect to mention the millions of enslaved Native Americans. A Brown database aims to help change that.
Maverick.
Professor Glenn Loury is a leading conservative voice in America, from his home base at Brown.
Sacred Work
Putting power back into the hands of California’s Native tribes.
All the Pigs in China
To make good food choices these days, you have to sort out global trade, politics, and environmental issues. Even experts can’t do it.
Food for Thought
Palate meets pedagogy in courses like “Food, Religion, and Politics in South Asia”
A New Language, in a Hurry
Intensive, double-credit language courses mean fast learning and instant community
At the Fork of the Stream
In 1964, at the height of the battle to end segregation, Brown entered into a partnership with Tougaloo, a historically Black college in Jackson, Mississippi. From that first year to today, Brown students have been mentored by beloved physician, civil rights leader, and “living legend” Dr. Robert Smith.
Beyond the Divide
A Hillel program gets Zionist and anti-Zionist students talking.
Fast Food Capitalism
The Pulitzer-winning Franchise by Marcia Chatelain ’03 AM, ’08 PhD, narrates the complicated history between McDonald’s and its Black outlet owners
Academic Safe Space
Afghan scholars fleeing the Taliban’s oppression of women find welcome at Brown
Lift Up Their Voices
Former journalist Elizabeth Rush traded news writing for testimony—allowing people in coastal communities to tell their climate change stories their way.
Stepping Up
A Narragansett dancer on life as a dual degree student, documentary star, and tribal activist
Border Aid
Hannah Janeway ’15 MD cofounded a group giving medical care to migrants stuck in Tijuana.
An Academic Theory Goes Unexpectedly Viral
Brown scholars on Critical Race Theory, the most divisive topic in American education
Speak Out
Asian Americans share stories on race and identity
Untold Stories
The songs of Julian Saporiti ’17 AM ’22 PhD are lost pieces of Asian American history cradled in melodies and chords.
Bird by Bird
An environmental studies course on birding looks at what separates us from one another and from nature, and what might bring us together.
Monetary Morality
Students often push the University to ditch “immoral” investments. Results have varied.
Hidden. Exposed. Targeted. Forgotten.
In 2021 America, Asians are targeted with violence yet still in the margins of our national conversation on race.
Archiving the African Diaspora
Anani Dzidzienyo’s presence was healing; his scholarship, groundbreaking. You could say the same about the class created in his memory.