Alumni News

Congratulations to Howard History Alumna, Dr. Arlisha Norwood, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, who was awarded a Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History by the National Archives Foundation to work on her research project "Black Women and the Freedmen’s Bureau Court."

Dr. Kate McMahon, who obtained her PhD in US History in the Department of History in 2017 will deliver the 14th Annual Deborah Pulliam Memorial Lecture, “Cargos of Despair: Northern New England and the Slave Trade” on August 10, 2023, at the Maine Maritime Academy, Castine. Dr. McMahon is a Museum Specialist and historian at the National Museum of African American History and Culture and leads research efforts at the Center for the Study of Global Slavery.  

Department of History Alum Dr. Dann J. Broyld (Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell) will be at the Kodak Center in Rochester on August 10, 2023 to discuss his book, “Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region During the Final Decades of Slavery,” about the roles that Rochester and St. Catharines, Canada, played as the last stops on the Niagara branch of the Underground Railroad. Both cities handled substantial fugitive slave traffic and were logical destinations for the settlement of runaways because of their progressive stance on social issues including abolition of slavery, women’s rights, and temperance. Black people in the two cities shared newspapers, annual celebrations, religious organizations, and kinship and friendship ties.

Howard University Department of History alumna, President, and Chief Executive of the Museum of African American History of Boston and Nantucket, Dr. Noelle Trent, is featured in this article in the New York Times about the 250th anniversary of the United States "Noelle Trent, the president and chief executive of the Museum of African American History of Boston and Nantucket, said that having robust Black history woven through the Semiquincentennial is important. “But my bigger concern is not just having Black history in predominantly white spaces, but continued support of Black museums,” she said."

Congratulations to Dr. Noelle Trent, Department of History alumna who has been named president and chief executive of the Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket. Check this wonderful news in the Boston Globe.