CSC: Migration, Education and the Rise of the Black Panther Party

w/ Donna Much, Assoc. Prof. of History at Rutgers Univ.

Thursday, April 20, 2017 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM EDT
Johnson Center, Meeting Room D

As part of our Spring 2017 Colloquium Series, GMU Cultural Studies is proud to present a presentation by Donna Murch, Associate Professor in History at Rutgers University. Her research interests include historical studies of mass incarceration/war on drugs, Black Power and Civil Rights, California, social movements, and postwar U.S. cities. Her recent monograph, Living for the City: Migration, Education and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, won the Phillis Wheatley Prize in December 2011.