The Queen’s College - Oxford establishes Barbara Savage Prize for best thesis in Black History

"Professor Barbara Savage is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania. ‘The new Black History Thesis Prize is a step toward making this field more visible at Oxford,’ she said. ‘Black history offers opportunities for exciting new research across time and space. The prize also signals that black lives mattered in the past, too. History always teaches us about the present. We cannot understand the nexus between racial legacies of the past and the pressing current moment without knowing that history. "

 

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