Co-Sponsor W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series

Each year the Africana Studies Department sponsors its W. E. B. Du Bois Distinguished Lecture Series featuring prominent scholars, writers, and scientists speaking on topics of interest to the UMBC and greater Baltimore communities.  This year our invited speaker is Dr. Evelynn M. Hammonds of Harvard University.

Dr. Hammonds is the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and the Director of the Program for the Study of Race & Gender in Science & Medicine at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. She is also Professor of African and African American Studies, Assoc. Faculty of the MIT/Harvard Broad Institute, and a former Dean of Harvard College.  She is the author ofChildhood’s Deadly Scourge:  The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930 (1999).  She is co-editor with Jennifer M. Shephard and Stephen M. Kosslyn of The Harvard Sampler: Liberal Education for the Twenty-First Century (2011) and, with Rebecca Herzig, of The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics (2008). Dr. Hammonds has published articles on the history of disease, race and science, African American feminism, African-American women and the epidemic of HIV/AIDS and analyses of gender and race in science and medicine.

Dr. Hammonds’ topic for our 36^th Annual Du Bois Lecture is "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Challenge to Scientific Racism”. Her talk will be on Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. The 2014 lecture is being co-sponsored by a wide range of on-campus partners, including the Social Sciences Forum, the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, the Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, the Honors College, the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, the Department of Psychology, the McNair Scholars Program, PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), andthe Meyerhoff Graduate Fellows Program (NIH-IMSD Program).