UMass Amherst Researchers Receive NEH Grant for High School Educators to Learn Fundamentals of African American Studies

University of Massachusetts Amherst News

A team of researchers in the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies and College of Education has been awarded a $171,962 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create a two-week, residential institute for 25 Massachusetts high school teachers to learn the fundamentals of African American studies during summer 2025. 

“The Souls of Black Folk and the Foundations of African American Studies” institute will be led by Toussaint Losier, project director and associate professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies and director of the Social Thought and Political Economy program. Other leaders of the effort include co-project directors Yolanda Covington-Ward, chair and professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies, and A Yęmisi Jimoh, professor in the Department of Afro-American Studies; and Keisha Green, K-12 educator for the grant and associate professor of teacher education and curriculum studies in the College of Education. 

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