2024
- Dr.Shani Evans, Assistant Professor, Sociology
- Danielle Terrazas Williams, Associate Professor, University of Leeds
- Dr. Elias Bongmba, Harry & Hazel Chavanne Chair in Christian Theology, Professor of Religion
- Dr. Bertin M. Louis Jr., Professor, University of Kentucky
- Dr. Melissa Stuckey, Associate Professor & Director of Public History, University of South Carolina
- Dr. Butch Ware, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Richard Mizelle, Jr., Associate Professor, University of Houston
- Michael Eric Dyson Lecture
- Dr.Treva B. Lindsey, Professor, Ohio State University
- Dr. Sherwin K. Bryant, Associate Professor, History & Director, Center for African and African American Studies
- Dr. Bernard Forjwuor, Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
- Dr. Joel Cabrita, Associate Professor, Stanford University
- Dr. Huey Copeland, Andrew W. Mellon Chair and Professor, University of Pittsburgh
- Dr. Victoria M. Massie, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
- Dr. James R. Jones, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Sociology and the inaugural Director of the Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America, Rutgers University–Newark
- Dr. Mia L. Bagneris, Associate Professor of Art History and African Studies & Director of the Africana Studies Program at Tulane University
- Dr. Ayodeji Olugbuyiro is the inaugural Anthony B. Pinn Postdoctoral Associate in the Center for African and African American Studies at Rice University
2025
- Dr. Sampada Aranke, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
- Dr. Sam C.Tenorio, Assistant Professor, Penn State University
- Documentary Screening: “Black Lives Matter in Latin America”
- Dr. Edda Fields-Black, Professor, Director of Dietrich College Humanities Center, Carnegie Mellon University
- Dr. Crystal R. Sanders, Professor, Emory College
- Dr. Nana Osei-Opare, Assistant Professor, Rice University
- Dr. Barnor Hesse, Director of Undergraduate Studies & Associate Professor, Northwestern University
- Dr. Khadene Harris, Assistant Professor, Rice University
- CAAAS and BRIDGE present: An Evening with Ruha Benjamin
- Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Associate Professor, Rice University
- Hassan Henderson-Lott, PhD Candidate, Religion
- Dr. Lisa B.Y. Calvente, Assistant Professor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- The Lisette Project- Dr. Jean Bernard Cerin and Dr. Nicholas Mathew
- Bernd Reiter, Professor, Texas Tech University
- Dr. John Baugh, Barbara Jordan Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, Rice University
2026
- Jamal Cyrus & Leslie Hewitt
- “The Black Experience at Rice: The Past, Present, and Future.”
- Dr. Glen A. Harris, Professor, University of North Carolina Wilmington
- Dr. Christien Philmarc Tompkins, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
- Dr. Linsey Sainte-Claire, Assistant Professor, Rice University,
- Dr. Quito J. Swan, Professor, & Director, Africana Studies Program, The George Washington University
- Dr. Natanya Duncan, Associate Professor, Director, Queens College
- Dr. Samar Al-Bulushi, Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine
- Dr.Tony Brown, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Rice University
- Dr. Duncan Yoon, Associate Professor, New York University
- Dr. Matty Hemming, Janice G. Doty Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Rice University
- Dr. Tony Yeboah, Assistant Professor, Tulane University
- Keywords for Black Louisiana: Reimagining the Place of Black Life in the Louisiana Colonial Archive
- Dr. Yolanda Covington-Ward, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Dr. Joseph Ewoodzie, Associate Professor, Rice University
Over the past year, Rice has responded to the call for greater attention to issues of race, racism and racial justice by developing the Center for African and African American Studies, the Task Force on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice, and BRIDGE (Building Research on Inequality and Diversity to Grow Equity). These outward-facing initiatives are committed to dismantling racial disregard through an array of programming, including the following events.