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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