Hallowed Grounds Tours (Fall 2022)

  Hallowed Grounds campus tours, which highlight the history and legacy of slavery at the University of Alabama, are based on the archival research of Dr. Hilary Green. Led by current graduate students and faculty in the Department of Gender and Race Studies, tours are free and open to the public and last approximately 45 minutes. For Fall 2022, tours are led every Wednesday at 3:15 PM. Our first tour will be Sept. 21. Please meet by the historic marker […]

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Gender & Race Studies Fall Lecture Series 2019

The Department of Gender & Race Studies will have several speakers coming in for Fall 2019. October 22nd from 3:00-5:00 pm, Deirdre Cooper Owens gave the “What Genealogies Reveal: Understanding Race, Slavery and the History of American Gynecology” lecture on campus in Lloyd Hall 324. October 23rd from 3:00-5:00 pm, Marlon Bailey lectured in Lloyd Hall 235. On November 6th, Robert Vitalis will give the “A Mongrel-American Social Science: International Relations” lecture in Lloyd Hall 222 from 3:00-5:00 pm. Laleh […]

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Terri Givens, Consultant, Speaker, Author, Public Lecture 10/18/2018

The Department of Gender & Race Studies is pleased to host UA Guest Speaker Terri Givens, who will speak to UA faculty, students, and the public on Thursday, October 18th, 2018, from 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm in ten Hoor Hall room 30. Please join us! Terri Givens is the author/editor of many books and articles on immigration policy, European politics and security, including Voting Radical Right in Western Europe, Immigration Policy and Security and Immigrant Politics: Race and Representation […]

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Benjamin Meiches, University of Washington-Tacoma, 10/11/2018

The Department of Gender & Race Studies at The University of Alabama is pleased to host UA Guest Speaker Benjamin Meiches, who will speak to UA Faculty, Students, and the Public from 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm in ten Hoor Hall room 30 on Thursday, October 11th, 2018. Please join us! Benjamin Meiches is an assistant professor of security studies and conflict resolution at the University of Washington-Tacoma. He is the author of The Politics of Annihilation: A Genealogy of […]

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Lisa Guenther, Queen’s University, 10/4/18

We are pleased to host UA Guest Speaker Lisa Guenther, speaking on campus Thursday, October 4th from 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm in ten Hoor Hall room 30. Lisa Guenther is Queen’s National Scholar in Political Philosophy and Critical Prison Studies at Queen’s University in Canada. She is the author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and its Afterlives (2013) and co-editor of Death and Other Penalties: Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration (2015). From 2012-17, she facilitated a discussion […]

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Assistant Professor Position Open: Contemporary Issues in Race, Gender, and Sexuality

Assistant Professor: Contemporary Issues in Race, Gender, and Sexuality. The Department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama is looking for a dynamic scholar to fill the position of Assistant Professor to begin in the fall of 2018 with expertise in the study of contemporary issues of race, gender, and sexuality. The successful candidate will be a tenure-track faculty member of the Department of Gender and Race Studies and will be expected to teach courses to both […]

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Assistant Professor Position Open: Decolonialism, Migration, and International Social Movements

Assistant Professor: Decolonialism, Migration, and International Social Movements The Department of Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama is looking for a dynamic scholar to fill the position of Assistant Professor to begin in the fall 2018, with expertise in any of the following research areas of 1) decolonialism, 2) migration, and 3) international social movements. The successful candidate will be a tenure-track faculty member of the Department of Gender and Race Studies and will be expected to […]

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