Robert Penn Warren Professor In The Humanities

  • Vanderbilt University

    Stripped Away

    There are any number of circumstances in which people can effectively lose some or most of their basic rights, says Colin Dayan, the Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities. In her new research, Dayan argues that the law has been refined so that it can be used to deny the very rights it’s presumably there to protect. Read More

    Jun 2, 2011

  • Video: Black Europe: African Presence in the Formation of Europe

    Video: Black Europe: African Presence in the Formation of Europe

    Watch a 12-minute documentary film highlighting the newly emergent study of the unique experience of people of African descent in Europe. Read More

    Jul 21, 2009