You are invited!!!

UMASS AMHERST LIBRARIES HOSTS 16^th ANNUAL DU BOIS LECTURE

~ A Talk by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham ~

Victor S. Thomas Professor of History
and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University

Amherst, MA - The UMass Amherst Libraries hosts the 16^th Annual Du Bois Lecture, by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 7:00 p.m., Cape Cod Room, Student Union, UMass Amherst. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Ph.D. is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. The event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Higginbotham will speak on "The Many Lives of W.E.B. Du Bois in the New From Slavery to Freedom." Dr. Higginbotham revised the 9^th edition of From Slavery to Freedom (2010).

Dr. Higginbotham's writings span diverse fields--African American religious history, women's history, civil rights, constructions of racial and gender identity, electoral politics, and the intersection of theory and history.

Dr. Higginbotham is the chair of the department of African and African American studies at Harvard University. She served as acting director of Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute in 2008. Previously, she taught at Dartmouth, the University of Maryland, and the University of Pennsylvania, and was a visiting professor at Princeton University and New York University.

Dr. Higginbotham is co-editor with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of the African American National Biography (2008), and African American Lives (2004). She was editor-in-chief of The Harvard Guide to African-American History (2001) and co-edited History and Theory: Feminist Research, Debates and Contestations (1997). She is the author of Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church: 1880-1920 (1993), which won numerous book prizes, most notably from the American Historical Association.

The Library marks Du Bois' birthday each year with a lecture by a distinguished scholar on a topic relating to Du Bois' life and legacy. The Library was named for W.E.B. Du Bois in 1994 and is home to the extensive Du Bois Papers.

For more information, contact Maurice Hobson, Du Bois Center, (413) 545-6843, or mhobson@library.umass.edu