An Energetic Vision Takes Root

By Lynn Gosnell

Sherwin Bryant in front of bookcase

"In 2019, Rice launched the Center for African and African American Studies, a collaboration between the School of Humanities and the School of Social Sciences, with the mission to be a home for critical conversation, innovative research, learning and community engagement. On Jan. 1, 2024, Sherwin K. Bryant — a distinguished scholar of slavery, race and the early modern African diaspora — took the helm."

Link: https://magazine.rice.edu/winter-2025/energetic-vision-takes-root