“Learning about these concepts really changed my perspective, not only as a burgeoning intellectual on my way to divinity school but also as a human. It made me feel like I was represented in a religious tradition that I’d always been part of. I had never understood that there were other people who looked like […]
Read MoreBaodong Liu is a nationally recognized expert on race, voting rights and U.S. elections. He provided key expert witness testimony in court hearings on the state of Alabama’s redistricting map, testimony that made its way into a subsequent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that found the map unconstitutional.
Read MoreWe are accepting applications from November 6 through December 1.
Read MoreWilliam A. Smith will receive the 2023 Albert B. Fritz Civil Rights Worker of the Year Award on Friday, Oct. 27, 2023, from the NAACP Salt Lake Branch Life Membership and Freedom Fund.
Read MoreIntersectional inquiry cuts across disciplines and modalities – from the social sciences, scientific, humanistic and the arts. Join us for a panel discussion to learn about how intersectionality as methodology is seminal to fields of research, where difference, power dynamics and interlocking identities are part of who we are as humans.
Read MoreFaculty, research administrators and students from across campus are invited to attend a 2-hour, in-person town hall on November 16.
Read MoreProfessor Armando Solórzano collected the speeches made by city officials, religious leaders and community members at the march and created an archive of interviews, newspaper clippings and analysis surrounding the event.
Read MoreOn Sept. 14, 2023, join us at the Black Cultural Center to engage with Phillis Wheatley Peters’ complex life and even more complex legacy as the second Colonial American woman—and the first of African descent—to publish a book of poetry.
Read MoreProjects now underway are aimed at taking the theory of intersectionality out of the classroom and into the public sphere as part of the U’s Transformative Intersectional Collective initiative.
Read MoreTransform is currently in year one of implementation of our Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant activities toward the creation of an intersectional studies collective. The initiatives and fellows convened on April 11 at the NEXUS for a Place-in.
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