She is “a scholar of the enslaved” and a specialist on gender and slavery as well as Black women’s history in the United States. Littlefield Professorship in American History, and the former Associate Dean of the Graduate School. She is also a Fellow of Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History, the George W. Radkey Regents Professor of History and Chairperson of the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Gordon-Reed’s honors include the National Humanities Medal, a MacArthur “Genius Grant,” and the Frederick Douglass Prize.ĭaina Ramey Berry is the Oliver H. The author of Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hemingses of Monticello, she lives in New York and Cambridge. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. This program is presented by Humanities Texas, LBJ Presidential Library, and the History Department at The University of Texas at Austin.Īnnette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M.
We welcome your comments on our Facebook and YouTube channels. We will not be taking questions during the program. Please submit your questions in advance, as part of the registration form below, to help streamline the program. Registrants will receive a link early Thursday to attend the event. The program will air at 7:00 pm CDT on Thursday, June 17. Daina Ramey Berry, Chair of the History Department at The University of Texas at Austin, will moderate the discussion. In her new book On Juneteenth, the historian and Texas native examines the Lone Star State roots of Juneteenth and its continuing importance to the fight for racial equity. Join us for an evening with Harvard Professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed.
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