The W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies

Presents: A Talk with Professor Nadia Brown

Professor Brown is a Professor of Government, director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and affiliate in the African American Studies program at Georgetown University. She specializes in Black women’s politics and holds a graduate certificate in Women's and Gender Studies. Dr. Brown's research interests lie broadly in identity politics, legislative studies, and Black women's studies. While trained as a political scientist, her scholarship on intersectionality seeks to push beyond disciplinary constraints to think more holistically about the politics of identity.

She is the author or editor of several award winning books – including Sisters in the Statehouse: Black Women and Legislative Decision Making (Oxford University Press); Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites (with Danielle Lemi); Distinct Identities: Minority Women in U.S. Politics (with Sarah Allen Gershon, Routledge Press); The Politics of Protest: Readings on the Black Lives Matter Movement (with Ray Block, Jr. and Christopher Stout, Routledge Press); and Approaching Democracy: American Government in Times of Challenge(with Larry Berman, Bruce Allen Murphy and Sarah Allen Gershon, Routledge Press). Professor Brown routinely provides analysis and political commentary to outlets such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today, CTV Television Network, and National Public Radio among others.

The talk will explore Black women's enthusiasm for Harris, the importance of the Divine Nine and HBCUs in this election, as well as contextualizing Vice President Harris's candidacy. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (UMass), the Department of Political Science (UMass) and the Department of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.