Robin Kelley, professor of history at UCLA, is the recipient of the 2015 Angela Y. Davis Award for public scholarship presented by the American Studies Association. The award is given annually to a scholar who has applied his or her scholarship for the public good by means of education, policies or other methods that seek to address inequalities in imaginative, practical and applicable forms.
Kelley is recognized for his contributions in educating and influencing the public about structural inequality and the power of radical collectivity.
Kelley specializes in the history of social movements in the United States and the African-American and African diaspora. His most recent work, “The Other Special Relationship: Race, Rights and Riots in Britain and the United States," analyzes the relationship between the U.S. and Great Britain and their shared experiences of empire, white supremacy, racial inequality and neoliberalism, as well as their most recent struggles for civil rights and political reform.
Kelley’s book is composed of essays by scholars from diverse fields, such as solidarity protests, calypso culture and white supremacy. His selection of essays presents various themes that provide the reader with an understanding of the development of an internationally interconnected civil rights movement.
Read the full announcement at UCLA’s Department of History.
