News: CHAT Highlights

On September 20, UEP, CHAT, and others hosted a special event in the Crane Room of Paige Hall at noon for a conversation with author Audrey Petty.

Kerri Greenidge, Co-Director of the CSRD, has just been named a finalist for the MAAH Stone Book award for her work The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family.

Why are stories of women, particularly women from marginalized groups, so underrepresented in the historical record and modern media? Who decides whose story is told, and how? Join Tisch College for lunch and learn how Half the History curates, archives and shares diverse women's stories through short-form biography, film and podcast...and how students can get involved. Added bonus? Check out the brand new Half the History exhibit now on display in the Barnum Hall lobby gallery.

Kyera Singleton joins Tufts as a Dissertation Fellow at the Center for the Humanities and the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy starting September 1.

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