2023 Alabama Humanities Fellows Ceremony

We’ll celebrate the power of the humanities to lift up Alabama, and we’ll honor our Alabama Humanities Fellows of 2023: acclaimed scholars and community-builders, David Mathews and Imani Perry. We’ll also highlight how examining our past can offer healing and strength for Alabama’s communities today.

The Alabama Humanities Alliance bestows its highest honor on Alabamians who have made our state and world a smarter, kinder, and more vibrant place to live. All through the humanities.

Since 1989, we’ve honored writers and historians, community builders and big thinkers, civil rights icons and storytelling legends. We’ve honored Alabamians who challenge us to examine what it means to be human. Who provide context that helps us better understand our past and our present. And who help us see our state’s diverse communities, rich cultures, and fellow neighbors more clearly — and with more empathy.

This year, we’ll add two more Fellows to these ranks at the Alabama Colloquium, presented by Regions. Join us as we honor a pair of scholar-author-historians: David Mathews, Ph.D., and Imani Perry, Ph.D.

The day’s program will include an enlightening conversation between our honorees, as well as an introduction of AHA’s newest collaboration, Healing History. This initiative is designed to strengthen our communities and state by helping neighbor better know neighbor — across race, religion, political affiliation, and all those other frequent dividing lines that shouldn’t keep us apart.

For questions about the event, please contact: Phillip Jordan | AHA communications director