Thornbrough Lecture in African American History with Dr. Terrion L. Williamson

Event Details

The Thornbrough Lecture Series is an annual series on African American history, sponsored by the Indiana Association of Historians, which takes place every fall. The lectures honor the lives and careers of sisters Gayle and Emma Lou Thornbrough.

This year’s Thornbrough lecturer is Dr. Terrion L. Williamson. Her talk is entitled, “We Live with Death and It Is Ours: Black Women, Serial Murder, and Reckoning with Home.” The 2021 lecture is sponsored by the IAH, the Indiana Historical Society and IUPUI’s Center for Africana Studies.

Dr. Williamson is a black feminist scholar and an associate professor of African American & African Studies and American Studies at the University of Minnesota. Born and raised in Peoria, Illinois, she also serves as the director of the Black Midwest Initiative and is working on a book on racialized gender violence in the industrial Midwest that was compelled by the series of murders she will be discussing in her talk. She is the author of Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life (Fordham University Press, 2017) and the editor of Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest (Belt, 2020). Her work has also been published in Signs, Social Text, Souls, Society and Space, CR: The New Centennial Review, and various public outlets and collected volumes.

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