MAGNOLIA— The fall installment of the Kathleen Mallory Distinguished Lecture Series will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, in the Grand Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center at Southern Arkansas University. This year’s speaker, Dr. Leslie Harris, associate professor of History and African American Studies at Emory University, will present “Hurricane Season: Life in Twentieth-Century New Orleans.”
Harris’ first book, In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863, (University of Chicago Press, 2003), was awarded the 2003 Wesley-Logan Prize for African Diaspora History, American Historical Association and Association for the Study of African-American Life and History, among other honors. She also co-edited Slavery in New York with Ira Berlin. The book accompanied the ground-breaking New-York Historical Society exhibit of the same name in 2005.
Harris has twice served as chair of the Department of African American Studies at Emory University and is the co-founder and director of the Transforming Community Project. The Transforming Community Project helps communities understand diversity through history.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For further information please contact Dr. Linda Tucker, assistant professor of English at (870) 235-4210.
