CHAT Fellow Seminar with Kyera Singleton, 3/13

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Join us 3/13 for a presentation by CHAT Fellow, Kyera Singleton, featuring her current research, entitled "Order her Removal As Soon As Possible: Black Women and the Case of Containment." 

Kyera Singleton is the Executive Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters. In addition to being a CHAT Fellow, she is also a PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the Department of American Culture. Before joining the Warren Center as an American Democracy Fellow, she held prestigious academic fellowships from the Beinecke Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Emory University’s James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, and the American Association of University Women (AAUW). As a public history scholar, Kyera recently served as an advisor on the Boston Art Commission’s Recontextualization Subcommittee for the bronze Emancipation Group Statue. She is also a member of the Board of Public Humanities Fellows at Brown University, which brings together a collection of museum leaders from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.

Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome. For questions, contact humanities@tufts.edu.