Presentations 2014

Professor Emeritus Patrick Bellegarde-Smith (Africology), Associate Professor Jeffrey Sommers (Africology), and graduate student Patrick Delices (Africology) held a roundtable on November 7th entitled: “Approaching the Centennial of the 1915-1934 Occupation—Perspectives on Haiti and the United States.”

Visiting Assistant Professor Gladys Mitchell-Walthour (Africology) was an invited speaker at the African Diaspora Research Forum sponsored by the National Association of African American Studies and Claflin University November 9-13. She presented on Racism and Economic Perceptions Amongst Afro-Brazilians.

Associate Professor Erin Winkler (Africology) served as chair and commentator on a panel entitled “Post-Civil Rights Struggle in Education: The Dialectical Struggle for Race and Gender Equality” at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History featuring papers by undergraduate Rachel A. Johnson (Africology & Psychology) and doctoral students Monique Liston (Education) and Amber Tucker (Education).

Graduate student Charmaine Lang (Africology) presented her paper “Black Women’s Activism: A Space of Their Own” at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in Memphis.