The arrival of Dance Theatre of Harlem Artistic Director Robert Garland to work with the University’s Terpsichorean Dance Company marked a moment layered with meaning. It was a convergence of two pioneering institutions whose very existence reshaped the possibilities for Black dancers in America.
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The Public Policy & International Affairs Program (PPIA) announces the selection of the 2026 Junior Summer Institute Fellows, an extraordinary cohort of emerging leaders chosen through a highly competitive national application process.
Professor Brarailty “Rel” Dowdell is leading a cinematic vanguard while defining Hampton’s place in entertainment and the study of film.
Hampton University is proud to announce that two members of its faculty have been selected as recipients of the highly competitive 2025 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) HBCU Fellowships and Grants. These awards, designed to advance humanistic scholarship and teaching at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, highlight the strength and innovation of Hampton’s academic community on a national stage.
In an exclusive interview, Ruth E. Carter breaks down how the Southern spirit and personal truth shaped her costume design for Ryan Coogler’s haunting Southern epic, Sinners.
The Hampton University Choirs will travel to London from June 24–30, 2025, in celebration of the 95th anniversary of a landmark moment in both university and music history: the 1930 European tour led by renowned composer and former Hampton director of music, R. Nathaniel Dett.
Hampton University is once again preparing to send a group of talented student-performers abroad for a transformative international arts experience, thanks in part to the return of “Rising of the Necessary Diva,” a one-woman show by Assistant Professor of Music Dr. Tiffany Renée Jackson.
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