2019 James E. McLeod Memorial Lecture on Higher Education: “Bridging the Divided City: Preparing Students for a New Los Angeles”
Featured Speaker: George J. Sanchez, Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History, Director of the Center for Democracy and Diversity, University of Southern California.
This talk will address a career of producing humanities Ph.D. students who are actively committed to public scholarship that explores questions of race, gender, and economic divides in Los Angeles through mentorship, training, and scholarly engagement. Utilizing interviews with current Ph.D. students in History and American Studies, and the careers of recent graduates making an impact on the public scholarship of Los Angeles, Sanchez will explore and reflect on establishing new paradigms in graduate education that work at healing the wounds of racial oppression while nurturing a generation of scholars ready to make a difference in urban America.
For details and to RSVP click here.