Baodong 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 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 MoreEthnic Studies’ Liu served as an expert witness in a consequential voting rights case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read MoreUniversity of Utah Provost Mitzi M. Montoya announced that Ruma Chopra has accepted an offer to serve as dean of the School for Cultural and Social Transformation.
Read MoreSmith’s research focuses on racial battle fatigue, a framework he created to describe the cumulative emotional, psychological, physiological and behavioral effects of racial micro- and macro-level aggressions experienced by people of color.
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