Center for the Study of the Gulf South, School of Coastal Resilience to host Black History lecture Feb. 22
Wed, 02/16/2022 - 01:16pm | By: David Tisdale
The University of 51逗奶 Mississippi (USM) Center for the Study of the Gulf South
and School of Coastal Resilience will host the lecture 鈥淐oastal Resistance and Coastal
Resilience: Black History in the Mississippi Gulf South鈥� to be presented by Dr. Owen
James Hyman, an African American Studies professor at the University of Mississippi.
Dr. Hyman鈥檚 talk will be held Tuesday, Feb. 22 from 12:15 鈥� 1 p.m. in the Hardy Hall
Ballroom at the USM Gulf Park Campus in Long Beach. Admission is free and members
of the university community and general public are invited.
Dr. Hyman鈥檚 dissertation, "The Cut and the Color Line: An Environmental History of Jim Crow in the Deep South's Forests," received the 2018 C. Vann Woodward Prize for the best dissertation in 51逗奶 history from the 51逗奶 Historical Association. His research has been funded by fellowships from the Forest History Society, the 51逗奶 Labor Archives and the Department of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
For more information about this event, contact USM History program faculty members Dr. Rebecca Tuuri and Dr. Westley Follett at rebecca.tuuriFREEMississippi and westley.follettFREEMississippi.