Current Member
Peniel Emmaus Joseph
Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member
Affiliation
Social Science
Field of study
20th Century American History
Home institution
University of Texas at Austin
Witness: James Baldwin's 1963 examines the way in which the writer's discourse of race, democracy, and citizenship altered global discourse on dignity and freedom in the epochal year of the March On Washington, Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church bombings, and the assassinations of civil rights leader Medgar Evers and President John F. Kennedy.
Visits
Member
School of Social Science
–
Degrees
Temple University
Ph.D.
2000
Honors
2025
Andrew Carnegie