Noteworthy: Research grants, awards and publications
“Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies,” a new book by Sheila Curran Bernard, associate professor in the History Department and director of the Graduate Program in Public History, will be out this summer. (Photo provided)
ALBANY, N.Y. (May 28, 2024) — The latest developments on University at Albany faculty and staff who are receiving research grants, awards and other noteworthy attention.
- A new book by Sheila Curran Bernard, associate professor in the Department of History and director of the Graduate Program in Public History, has received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies examines the life and lore of legendary Black folk musician Huddie Ledbetter, known as Lead Belly, within the context of the Jim Crow era, drawing on arrest, trial, and prison records; sharecropping reports; oral histories; newspaper articles; and more. It will be published by Cambridge University Press in early July.
- Political Science Associate Professor Sally Friedman co-wrote an article published in The Conversation and in newspapers nationwide that found social and political differences could ease in the future as younger generations rise to political power.
- Leonard A. Slade Jr., professor emeritus of Africana Studies and former adjunct professor of English, has been published in Wilfred Samuels’ Encyclopedia of African American Literature, a work of 592 pages that includes entries on major fiction writers, poets, dramatists and critics in African American Literature. The entry includes a biographical sketch of Slade — former chair of the Department of Africana Studies and former director of the Humanistic Studies Doctoral Program and Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program — exegesis of some of his poems, titles of his book and journal publications, and his national awards.