The 2025 Washington University International Humanities Prize recipient Lynn Nottage tells stories that uplift and give voice to those who are often not seen, who are not centered and who are, in many instances, the least of us, writes Ron Himes.
This spring, an organic, grassroots movement invited Black educators and millions of TikTok “students” to collaborate in creating a virtual learning space for everything from agriculture to theology. Black studies and media scholar Raven Maragh-Lloyd writes about the phenomenon, which revealed a public hungry for expertise and a successful method for scholars to reach them.
How do we remember uncomfortable histories — the stories and the sites that reflect an inglorious past? Amid broad efforts at the national level to revise the historical record, Heidi Aronson Kolk’s (Sam Fox and AMCS) study of “negative heritage” takes on new meaning and urgency.
Lynne Tatlock draws on her skills as an archival researcher, philologist, computational analyst, close reader, book historian, and scholar of translation theory and practice in her current project to bring light to the woman authors of turn-of-the-century Germany.
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View EventLecture and reception for playwright and MacArthur “Genius” Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Sweat” and “Ruined” and winner of the 2025 Washington University International Humanities Prize
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