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MEDIA CONTACT: Susan Hagen susan.hagen@rochester.edu
585.276.4061
February 19, 2009
TIME, DATE, PLACE: Rush Rhees Library Welles-Brown Room
Thursday, February 26, 2009
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
WHO: Khalilah Brown-Dean, the Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Yale University, specializes in American politics, mass political behavior, criminal justice, and political psychology. She has published research on voting rights, perceptions of bias in the criminal justice system, civic engagement, and the race-education nexus. Her most recent book, Once Convicted, Forever Doomed: Race, Crime, and Political Inequality, explores the political impact of the criminal justice system on communities of color.
WHAT: The \"Two Icons Lecture\" honors Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. The lecture is sponsored by the University of Rochester\'s Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women\'s Studies, the Department of Political Science and the Center for the Study of African-American Politics.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact Susan Hagen at 585.276.4061 or susan.hagen@rochester.edu.
The University of Rochester (www.rochester.edu) is one of the nation's leading private universities. Located in Rochester, N.Y., the University gives students exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close collaboration with faculty through its unique cluster-based curriculum. Its College of Arts, Sciences, and Engineering is complemented by the Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, and the Memorial Art Gallery.
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