Northwestern Events Calendar

Oct
27
2016

Allison Davis Lecture

When: Thursday, October 27, 2016
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM CT

Where: Harris Hall, 107, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Suzette Denose   (847) 491-5122

Group: African American Studies Department

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Barbara Ransby

Barbara Ransby is an historian, writer, and longtime activist. She received her BA in History from Columbia University and her MA and Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan. She is currently a Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) where she previously served as Director of the Gender and Women’s Studies (2008 – 2013), Program and Interim Vice Provost for Planning and Programs (2011 -2012). She currently directs the campus-wide Social Justice Initiative, which foregrounds the university’s public urban mission by linking with community partners around social justice projects. Professor Ransby is author of Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson (Yale University Press, January 2013) and the highly acclaimed biography, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (University of North Carolina Press, 2003), which received eight national awards and recognitions including: Lillian Smith Book Award, Southern Regional Council; the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, American Historical Association; Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Prize, Association of Black Women Historians; Liberty Legacy Foundation Award (co-winner), Organization of American Historians; and the James A. Rawley Prize, Organization of American Historians. Prof. Ransby is also the second Editor-in-Chief of Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, and has served on the editorial board of the London-based journal, Race and Class for over twenty years. She is currently principal investigator for an Andrew Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar project entitled “Geographies of Justice,” which will convene scholar activists from five countries to discuss social justice movements through a comparative lens. Professor Ransby serves on a number of advisory boards, and works with many grassroots and non-profit social change organizations. Her popular writings have appeared in Colorlines, Dissent, In These Times, The Boston Review, and The Jacobin. She has spoken widely on college campuses and in community forums around the country. In terms of her forthcoming publications, she is completing a book on the Black Lives Matter movement, which will place the movement in a larger historical context, and which will be published next year by University of California Press.

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