African American and African Diaspora Studies

Faculty Distinction 2020/21


Kevin Fellezs

Associate Professor of Music and African American and African Diaspora Studies

Office of the Provost Mid-Career Faculty Grant


Kevin Fellezs

Associate Professor of Music and African American and African Diaspora Studies

Office of the Provost Mid-Career Faculty Grant


Kevin Fellezs
Associate Professor of Music and African American and African Diaspora Studies

Office of the Provost Mid-Career Faculty Grant


Robert Gooding-Williams

M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African American Studies, and Professor of Philosophy and of African American and African Diaspora Studies

Dewey Lecture in Law and Philosophy, University of Chicago Law School


Robert Gooding-Williams

M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African American Studies, and Professor of Philosophy and of African American and African Diaspora Studies

Dewey Lecture in Law and Philosophy, University of Chicago Law School


Robert Gooding-Williams
M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African American Studies, and Professor of Philosophy and of African American and African Diaspora Studies

Dewey Lecture in Law and Philosophy, University of Chicago Law School


Farah Jasmine Griffin

African-American Studies Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Chair, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies and William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies

Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University

Society of Columbia Graduates’ Great Teacher Award

Guggenheim Fellowship


Farah Jasmine Griffin

African-American Studies Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Chair, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies and William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies

Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University

Society of Columbia Graduates’ Great Teacher Award

Guggenheim Fellowship


Farah Jasmine Griffin
African-American Studies Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Chair, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies and William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies

Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer in the Humanities, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University

Society of Columbia Graduates’ Great Teacher Award

Guggenheim Fellowship


Josef Sorett

Professor of Religion and of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Chair, Department of Religion

Grant for “The Arts, Politics and Publics of Black Faith,” Henry Luce Foundation


Josef Sorett

Professor of Religion and of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Chair, Department of Religion

Grant for “The Arts, Politics and Publics of Black Faith,” Henry Luce Foundation


Josef Sorett
Professor of Religion and of African American and African Diaspora Studies; Chair, Department of Religion

Grant for “The Arts, Politics and Publics of Black Faith,” Henry Luce Foundation


Mabel Wilson

Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies: Director in the Institute for Research in African-American Studies

Fellow of Society of Architectural Historians

Resident Fellow Award, American Academy in Rome
Architect’s Newspaper’s 2020 Project of the Year Award for Memorial to Enslaved Laborers

Thomas Jefferson Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia School of Architecture, Virginia

Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Virginia School of Architecture, Virginia

Co-curator, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America , Museum of Modern Art

Elected Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences


Mabel Wilson

Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies: Director in the Institute for Research in African-American Studies

Fellow of Society of Architectural Historians

Resident Fellow Award, American Academy in Rome
Architect’s Newspaper’s 2020 Project of the Year Award for Memorial to Enslaved Laborers

Thomas Jefferson Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia School of Architecture, Virginia

Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Virginia School of Architecture, Virginia

Co-curator, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America , Museum of Modern Art

Elected Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences


Mabel Wilson
Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies: Director in the Institute for Research in African-American Studies

Fellow of Society of Architectural Historians

Resident Fellow Award, American Academy in Rome
Architect’s Newspaper’s 2020 Project of the Year Award for Memorial to Enslaved Laborers

Thomas Jefferson Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia School of Architecture, Virginia

Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Virginia School of Architecture, Virginia

Co-curator, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America , Museum of Modern Art

Elected Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences

The Faculty Distinction awards are compiled annually by the offices of the Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences in coordination with the Arts and Sciences Departments. The information displayed is archival in nature and reflects distinctions of the previous academic year - 2020 is a collection of awards an honors from the 2019-2020 academic year.

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