Democracy in America: The History of our Time and Place
Monthly Graduate Workshops
Crystal Feimster, African American Studies.
This series of noontime workshops gives students a chance to hear faculty members from across the disciplines present their own analysis of the state of democracy in contemporary America, and reflect upon how their particular disciplinary methods and outlooks have outfitted them to approach the current national and world situation. Discussion will also address the pedagogical challenges and responsibilities in the classroom at times of political stress or crisis. Presentation and open discussion; lunch will be served.
Crystal Feimster, (Ph.D., Princeton University, 2000), is a tenured Associate Professor of African American Studies, History and American Studies at Yale University. Feimster’s academic focus is racial and sexual violence; currently, she is completing a project on rape during the American Civil War. Her book, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching, focuses on two women journalists, Ida B. Wells, who campaigned against lynching, and Rebecca Latimer Felton, who urged white men to prove their manhood by lynching black men accused of raping white women.
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Generously funded by a 320 York Humanities Grant, Faculty of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Office, Yale University.