Department of Gender and Race Studies

The Department of Gender & Race Studies welcomes Deirdre Cooper Owens October 22nd, 2019. More information is below: Cooper Owens Deirdre 10-21-23-2019 Flyer DEIRDRE COOPER OWENS What Genealogies Reveal: Understanding Race, Slavery and the History of American Gynecology October 22, 3-5 pm Lloyd Hall 324 Dr. Cooper Owens is the Charles and Linda Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine and Director of the Humanities in Medicine Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her first, awardwinning book, Medical Bondage: Race, [...]

The Department of Gender and Race Studies welcomes Marlon Bailey October 23rd, 2019. More information is below: Bailey, Marlon, 10-22-23-2019 Flyer MARLON BAILEY October 23, 3-5 pm Lloyd Hall 235 Dr. Bailey is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. His first book, Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit (2013), a performance ethnography of ballroom culture, won the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern [...]

The Department of Gender & Race Studies will welcome Robert Vitalis to campus November 6th, 2019. More information is available below: Vitalis, Bob, 11-5-8-2019 Lecture Flyer A Mongrel-American Social Science: International Relations November 6, 3-5 pm Lloyd Hall 222 Dr. Vitalis is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book, White World Order, Black Power Politics: the Birth of American International Relations (2015), explores the unwritten history of disciplinary international relations, recovering the African-American internationalist [...]

The Department of Gender & Race Studies will welcome Laleh Khalili to campus November 12th, 2019. More information is available below: Khalili, Laleh, 11-9-13-2019 Flyer LALEH KHALILI The Corporeal Life of Commerce at Sea November 12, 3-5 pm Lloyd Hall 222 Dr. Khalili is Professor of International Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. Her forthcoming book, Sinews of War and Trade (2020), examines the role of maritime infrastructures as conduits of [...]

The Department of Gender & Race Studies welcomes Alex Gourevitch November 14th, 2019. More information is below: Gourevitch, Alex, 11-13-15-2019 Lecture Flyer ALEX GOUREVITCH Why It Is Up to the Oppressed to Emancipate Themselves November 14, 3-5 pm Lloyd Hall 222 Dr. Gourevitch is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University. He is the author of From Slavery to the Cooperative Commonwealth: Labor and Republican Liberty in the Nineteenth Century (2015) and a contributor to Jacobin magazine. FOR MORE [...]

Hallowed Grounds campus tours, which highlight the history and legacy of slavery at the University of Alabama, are based on the archival research of Dr. Hilary Green. Led by current graduate students and faculty in the Department of Gender and Race Studies, tours are free and open to the public and last approximately 45 minutes. Please meet by the historic marker in front of the Gorgas House Museum (810 Capstone Dr., Tuscaloosa AL 35401). Participants are encouraged to dress for [...]