Dr. Psyche Williams-Forson is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland College Park. She is an affiliate faculty member of the Theatre, Dance, and Performing Studies, the Departments of Anthropology, African American Studies, Women’s Studies, and the Consortium on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity.

Dr. Williams-Forson’s work on material culture and food have been published in her books Taking Food Public: Redefining Foodways in a Changing World and the award-winning (American Folklore Society) Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, & Power, as well as in many journals and book chapters. Her expertise has been featured in a number of media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera America, NPR (National Public Radio), Radio New Zealand, Irish Radio, MSNBC (the former Melissa Harris-Perry Show), and The Associated Press (wire service), among others.

July 22, 2020
6:30 PM
Held via teleconference.

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