Listen to Harris' interview with John Hines
On January 16, Professor Duchess Harris talked with John Hines about MLK Day, race in America, the Trump Presidency and more. >> Listen...
Macalester prof. writes about grandmother, other black female NASA engineers featured in movie
Excerpt from the Star Tribune: "In 1943, Duchess Harris’ grandmother began working at NASA. She was one of 11 black women mathematicians...
NASA’s Hidden Figures: Women You Need to Know
Excerpt from Biography.com: "The movie "Hidden Figures," which opens nationwide this Friday, celebrates the African-American women who...
How World War II opened the door for one of the first black women at NASA
Excerpt from The Washington Post: "Have you ever seen a computer in a skirt? Duchess Harris has. In a photo submitted to Historically...
Duchess Harris shares grandmother's story in upcoming 'Hidden Human Computers: The Black Wom
Excerpt courtesy of MinnPost. "My grandmother was in the group of the first 11 black women recruited to work at NASA, and I’ve wanted to...
Hidden Figures Trailer
The Hidden Figures trailer is out, which tells the story of the African-American mathematician Katherine Johnson and her two colleagues,...
The Untold Story of the Hidden Human Computers: A Timeline
The Human Computers at NASA project is a student/faculty collaborative project at the Macalester College's American Studies Department...
Behind the Scenes of the Hidden Human Computer Project
Dozens of African American women worked for NASA as expert mathematicians from the 1940s to the 1960s and almost no one knows about it....
Duchess talks about her Black Lives Matter book on the John Williams Show
In this hour, John talked to listeners about the backlash against Donald Trumps comments about a Muslim military family. Then he spoke...
Talking about Discomfort & Disruption
Lena Katherine Gardner. Dr. Duchess Harris, Dr. Mahmoud El-Kati and Liz Loeb speak on a panel held at Springhouse Ministry Center in...
