Join Dr. Davis, Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and the Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society at The Graduate Center for this year’s Mary Edwards Memorial Lecture.
When: Thursday March 19, 2020 at 4:30
Where: Red Room of Student Services
Black women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. Dána-Ain Davis looks into this phenomenon, placing racial differences in birth outcomes into a historical context, revealing that ideas about reproduction and race today, have been influenced by the legacy of ideas, which developed during the era of slavery.
Dána-Ain Davis is the author of Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform, co-author of Feminist Activist Ethnography with Christa Craven, and co editor of Black Genders and Sexuality with Shaka McGlotten, Professor of Media Studies at Purchase. Davis has been co-Chair of NARAL-NY, served as President of the Association of Black Anthropologists, and as Executive Director of the ADCO Foundation.She is a trustee of the New York Foundation, and is a consultant to a number of foundations and community-based organizations. New York Governor Cuomo appointed Davis to the Governor’s Maternal Mortality Taskforce in June 2018. Her book Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth, was published by New York University Press in 2019. Professor Davis taught at Purchase from 2001-2007 during which time she chaired the Global Black Studies program.
Professor Mary Edwards was a founding member of the Purchase College political science program and was instrumental in developing the women’s studies program and the college’s Children’s Center. Following her death in 1994, at the age of 48, her family and friends created an endowment to fund an annual lecture in women’s studies to honor Professor Edwards’ commitment to her students in order to aid in the elimination of social and political inequality.
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