How Women Lead and the Difference It Makes
Melissa Harris–Perry
Tuesday, 11 Feb 2014 at 7:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union
Melissa Harris-Perry hosts a weekend MSNBC program and is a professor of political science at Tulane University, where she directs the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South. The "Melissa Harris-Perry Show," features analysis and guest-driven discussion of political, cultural and community issues. Topics often reflect Perry's academic research interests in the challenges facing contemporary black Americans. Harris-Perry is the author of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America as well as Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought. She has a PhD in political science from Duke University. Book signing & reception to follow. Part of the Women and Leadership Series.Professor Harris-Perry received her BA in English from Wake Forest University and her PhD in political science from Duke University. She also studied theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Her work is published in scholarly journals and edited volumes and her interests include the study of African American political thought, black religious ideas and practice, and social and clinical psychology. She previously served on the faculties of the University of Chicago and Princeton University.
Cosponsored By:
- Anthropology
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Miller Funds
- School of Education
- Sociology
- University Diversity Committee
- Women's & Gender Studies Program
- Women's Leadership Consortium
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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