Join Dr. Amy Tillerson-Brown, the Dean of the Mary Baldwin College for Women at Mary Baldwin University (MBU) in Staunton, VA for OLLI’s Distinguished Speaker Series. Since arriving at Mary Baldwin in 2004, Tillerson-Brown has forged a distinguished career in a variety of academic leadership roles, including as professor of history; history department chair; and director of both the African American studies program and public history program. She is also a founding member, current co-lead of MBU’s Coalition for Racial and Social Justice, and advisor for the university’s chapter of the national history honor society Phi Alpha Theta. Her recent scholarly research analyses the activism of Black women in Prince Edward County before and during the public school crisis of the 1950s and 60s. Additionally, she has collaborated with Yale University on the Legacies of American Slavery, a reckoning with the past—the study of slavery, resistance, and abolition. For this project, she studied the role of implicit bias in invalidating the promises of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Join us for this talk, followed by light refreshments and discussion.
Location:
24 South Market Street, Staunton, Virginia 24401, United States
