Past Ida B. Wells-Barnett Distinguished Lecturers

Dorothy Roberts, J.D., Ph.D.
Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania

Biographical Sketch

Selected Work: Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

Melissa Harris-Perry, Ph.D.
Political analyst, author, professor of political science at Tulane University, and founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South

Biographical Sketch

Selected Work: Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

Angela Y. Davis
Political activist, and Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Biographical Sketch

Selected Work: Are Prisons Obsolete?

Evelynn Hammonds, Ph.D., C'76
The Barbara Gutmann Rosenkratz Professor of History of Science and professor of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University

Selected Work: Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality

Deborah Willis, Ph.D.
University professor and chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University

Selected Work: Posing Beauty in African American Images from the 1890s to the Present

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, J.D.
Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Biographical Sketch
Press Release

Selected Works:

• "Race, Gender and the School-to-Prison Pipeline"
• Unequal Opportunity Race Video