The Role of the Courts in Our Democracy A discussion on the role of the Court with Hess Scholar Melissa Murray and other legal experts. Read More
History and the Courts A conversation on what it means for the Court to “do” history, led by Hess Scholar Melissa Murray. Read More
Dobbs and the Future of Individual Rights A discussion on the future of individual rights, led by Hess Scholar Melissa Murray. Read More
The 2025 Robert L. Hess Memorial Lecture: Funhouse Footnote Four—How the Roberts Court Is Remaking the Constitutional Order Melissa Murray discusses her upcoming book, Woke Warriors: The Roberts Court’s Racial Reckoning. Read More
Hess Scholars Paul Ortiz and Barbara Smith to Lecture on “Defending the Humanities” Ortiz is a professor of history at the University of Florida and will serve as Brooklyn College’s Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence for 2024. Read More
Author and Activist Barbara Smith to Lecture at Brooklyn College on March 16 One of her first public appearances since 2020 will serve as an extraordinary complement to Brooklyn College’s Women’s History Month celebration. Read More
Author and Activist Barbara Smith Serving as Brooklyn College’s Hess Scholar-in-Residence for 2022-23 The independent scholar has opened up a national cultural and political dialogue about the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. On November 29, Smith will be part of a conversation on campus with Jeanne Theoharis to discuss selected clips from the newly released documentary, “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” which features Smith and is also based on Theoharis’ research and book of the same name. Read More
Brooklyn College Welcomes Lisa Lowe, Ph.D., as Its 2021–2022 Hess Scholar in Residence Professor of American Studies at Yale University will headline discussions on the Asian-American experience, legacies of settler colonialism, slavery, and empire in the contemporary United States. Read More
Hess Scholar in Residence Winona LaDuke Says We Must Take the “Green Path” to Restore Our Environment and Economy Looking to indigenous people for guidance is a good start, said the First Nation activist. Read More
Faculty and Staff Reading Group Spring 2020 Schedule All faculty and staff are invited to selected readings of Winona LaDuke’s Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming (South End Press, 2005), performed by Brooklyn College Professor Read More
