KINGSTON, R.I. 鈥� Oct. 5, 2022 鈥� Anthropologist, historian, and writer will present at the 2022 Tuesday, Oct. 11, on 鈥淏lack Food, Black Liberation: Thinking, Writing, and Living Beyond Black.鈥� Reese is an assistant professor in the Department of African & African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She works in the area of Black food culture, social justice, and community resilience.
Reese will speak at 7 p.m. at Edwards Hall on the Kingston Campus, as part of the fall Honors Colloquium, which will be presented in person and streamed live (video links are available the day of each event at the link above). This lecture is co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences.
鈥淚鈥檓 an anthropologist who does critical food studies through a Black geographies framework,鈥� Reese says. 鈥淚 examine the ways Black people and communities navigate food inequities that are a byproduct of anti-Blackness and explore mechanisms for survival that thrive in spite of inequities.鈥� During the Oct. 11 talk, she will focus on the intersection of Black studies and critical food studies.
Reese earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from American University and a bachelor鈥檚 degree in history from Trinity University in Texas, and taught at Spelman College and the University of Maryland before joining the University of Texas. She has been published in a variety of academic and non-academic publications including Oxford American and Gravy magazine. She has written two books, Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access, which won the 2020 Best Monograph Award from the Association for the Study of Food and Society, and Black Food Matters: Racial Justice in the Wake of Food Justice, a collection co-edited with Hannah Garth; and is working on a third book, The Carceral Life of Sugar.
The 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium is the University鈥檚 premier lecture series. Hosted by the University’s , this university-wide educational forum is open to the public. This year鈥檚 free lecture series will bring several experts to the Kingston Campus to examine local and global food systems, examining ways to create equitable, sustainable and resilient food systems, on Tuesday evenings through Dec. 13. Learn more about the