The Fourth Annual Keith L. Nelson Lecture in U.S. International History: "One Person, No Vote" featuring Dr. Carol Anderson
Department: History
Date and Time: April 16, 2018 | 3:30 PM-6:00 PMEvent Location: HG 1030
Event Details
The UCI Department of History Presents: The Fourth Annual Keith L. Nelson Lecture in U.S. International History featuring Dr. Carol Anderson:
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy
April 16, 2018
4:30 PM
HG 1030
A light reception will precede the event at 3:30pm.
Carol Anderson
Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University.
She is the author of Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African-American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955, which was published by Cambridge University Press and awarded both the Gustavus Myers and Myrna Bernath Book Awards. Her second book, Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960, was also published by Cambridge.
Her most recent publication, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide, won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. White Rage has been named one of the best books for 2016 by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Boston Globe, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Globe and Mail and is also a New York Times Bestseller and a New York Times Editor's Pick.
Her research has garnered substantial fellowships and grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, National Humanities Center, Harvard University's Charles Warren Center, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (The Big Ten and the University of Chicago), and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
Professor Anderson was a member of the U.S. State Department's Historical Advisory Committee. She earned her Ph.D. in history from Ohio State University.
Keith L. Nelson
The Keith L. Nelson Lecture in International History is made possible by the allocation of funds from the Edward A. Dickson professorship awarded to Keith L. Nelson, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at UCI. He was a founding member of the History Department in 1965 and served the campus, Humanities, and History in numerous ways. His publications include The Impact of War on American Life; Victors Divided: America and the Allies In Germany, 1918-1923; The Making of Détente: Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam; and Why War? Ideology, Theory, and History (with Spencer Olin).
This event is sponsored by UCI's Department of History, Department of International Studies, Humanities Commons, Department of Political Science and Department of Global Peace and Conflict Studies.