Asheesh Kapur Siddique

Asheesh Kapur Siddique is an assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He grew up in Washington, DC, and his father taught Chemical Engineering at Howard University in the 1970s.

‘SPIRITUAL CATASTROPHE’

How Congress Could Save the Only Classics Dept. at an HBCU

Thanks to its unique relationship with Howard, Congress can easily fund this 150-year-old incubator of pioneering scholarship that’s been a potent rejoinder to white supremacists.

Asheesh Kapur Siddique