Fuentes Gives Voice to ‘Silenced Histories’ Nov. 6

Contact: (336) 334-4314

Posted 10-22-08

GREENSBORO — Dr. Marisa Fuentes will deliver a lecture, “Silenced Histories: Enslaved Women, the Archive, and Power in the Urban Atlantic World,” at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, in the Alumni House.

Sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, the African American Studies Program, and the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the event is free and open to the public.

Fuentes, who received her PhD in African American Studies from UC Berkeley, is a postdoctoral research associate in the Curriculum of Women’s Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. She uses critical historiography, historical geography, anthropology and black feminist theory to analyze enslaved women in the urban Atlantic.

For more information, please contact the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at (336) 334-5673 or visit the program's web site.