Sojourner Truth Lecture

Dorothy Roberts

Thursday, February 26, 2015 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
Johnson Center, Georges

The Women and Gender Studies program is hosting its annual Sojourner Truth Lecture featuring Professor Dorothy Roberts.  The event will be on Thursday, February 26th from 3-4 PM in George’s with a book signing and reception to follow.

Dorothy Roberts, an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law, joined the University of Pennsylvania as its 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and the Law School where she also holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander chair.


 Her pathbreaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent contemporary issues in health, social justice, and bioethics, especially as they impact the lives of women, children and African-Americans. Her major books include Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (New Press, 2011); Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002), and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997). She is the author of more than 80 scholarly articles and book chapters, as well as a co-editor of six books on such topics as constitutional law and women and the law.

 

Sponsored by AAAS, WGST, WAVES, New Century College, and Compliance, Diversity, Ethics.

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