Transforming the Academy: Making Private Conversations Public with Strategy and Compassion

Friday, June 2, 2017

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

The editor of and contributor to Transforming the Academy, Sarah Willie-LeBreton, PhD, will share diversity stories that began as private conversations and blossomed into public discussions.

The other contributors to the book offer their experiences from the perspective of one-time outsiders who are now faculty and staff at predominantly white, American institutions of higher learning. Having wrestled with the micro-realities of representing difference and navigating oppressive situations on their campuses, in their departments and curricula, with their colleagues and students, they return to the radical expectations and transformative possibilities of diversity. This presentation will allow us to explore the sociological implications of increasing diversity and to consider the pragmatic questions of how and when to make private conversations public for the purpose of mutual and academic transformation.

Lunch will be served. RSVP to seb376@drexel.edu

Sponsored by the Department of Sociology.

Contact Information

Susan Bell
seb376@drexel.edu