Graduate Student Lunch with Dr. Mary Amanda McNeil, 12/1
Fung House
Tufts graduate students in the humanities are invited to an informal conversation over lunch with Mary Amanda McNeil (Assistant Professor, Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora) on building communities and practicing kinship towards survival within/beyond the academy.
McNeil’s research and teaching sit at the intersections of Black studies; Native American and Indigenous studies; Afro-Native studies; women, gender, and sexuality studies; social history; and geography. McNeil completed her PhD in American studies at Harvard University. Her dissertation, which examines the spatial imaginaries of Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous political actors in Massachusetts, is entitled, “The Responsibility to Remain: Black Power and Red Power Claims to Massachusetts.” Currently, she sits on the board of the Royall House and Slave Quarters, as an advisory council member to the Mellon “Just Futures”-funded public history initiative, “Reimagining New England Histories: Historical Injustice, Sovereignty, and Freedom,” and as a thought partner with Tufts University Art Galleries on programming around their newest exhibition, Véxoa: We Know (Nós sabemos). McNeil was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, and she is an enrolled citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe.
Open to all graduate students in the humanities. Organized by CHAT and the Graduate Humanities Circle. For questions, please contact wenxuan.xue@tufts.edu.
