Cecilia A. Conrad, Scripps College’s dean of faculty and professor of economics at Pomona College, is the final speaker in the Claremont Colleges’ Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies’ 2008-09 speaker series, “Multiple Identities, Dynamic Subjectivities.” Conrad will lecture on “Intersectionality and Economic Status—Black Women Workers” on Thursday, April 9, at 4:15 p.m. in Scripps’ Hampton Room of the Malott Commons. The lecture is free and open to the public.
A member of the Pomona College faculty since 1995, Conrad began a two-year appointment as Scripps College’s Interim Dean of Faculty on July 1, 2007. She has since accepted the position of Vice President and Dean of the College at Pomona College, effective July 1, 2009. Conrad is the Stedman-Sumner Professor of Economics, and teaches courses on race and the U.S. economy, urban economics, and poverty and the distribution of income. Her research focuses on the effects of race and gender on economic status, and her co-edited book, African Americans in the U.S. Economy, was named an Outstanding Academic Title of 2005 by CHOICE Magazine. Conrad is the editor of The Review of Black Political Economy, an associate editor of Feminist Economics, and president-elect of the International Association for Feminist Economics.
Conrad’s lecture wraps up the 2008-9 Black Studies lecture series that included Natasha Trethewey, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry; Dinaw Mengestu, winner of the Guardian (UK) First Book Award; Roderick Ferguson, professor sociology at the University of Minnesota; and Lucius Outlaw, professor of philosophy and African American Studies at Vanderbilt University.
Established in 1969, the Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies offers a rich program of multidisciplinary teaching and scholarship to all students at The Claremont Colleges. Its mission is to examine, through various academic disciplines, the experiences of people of African heritage worldwide.
For more information, contact the Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies at
(909) 607-3070.