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Please join the Comparative Historical Social Sciences workshop as they host Angel Adams Parham, Associate Professor of Sociology from the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and the author of American Routes, which provides a comparative and historical analysis of the migration and integration of white and free black refugees from nineteenth century St. Domingue/Haiti to Louisiana and follows the progress of their descendants over the course of two hundred years.

She is currently at work on a book manuscript entitled "Reckoning and Reconciliation: On Race, Place, and Memory in Civic Life," which compares and contrasts the social histories of three key sites in New Orleans over a three-hundred-year period as a way of examining and publicly discussing transformations in race, gender and power. Her talk to the Comparative Historical Social Sciences workshop will be a chapter from the book project entitled “Lieux de Souvenir: A Social Art of Memory at the Intersection of the Sociological and Moral Imaginations.”

Angel Adams Parham is Associate Professor of Sociology and senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. She works in the area of historical sociology, engaging in research and writing that examine the past in order to better understand how to live well in the present and envision wisely for the future.