This year, The B.A. Jones Lecture on Race & Society (SOAN), The R. Kragalott Lecture on Human Rights, Genocide & Mass Atrocity (HIST), and The B.F. Marsh Lecture on Public Affairs (PG) are collaborating to present a lecture and panel discussion.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, at 5 p.m. in Merrick Hall 301, the departments will host the lecture, \u201cRefusing Death: Immigrant Women of Color on Environmental Racism and Classism\u201d delivered by Nadia Kim, Ph.D. This lecture is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
Nadia Kim,<\/a>\u00a0professor of Sociology, holds the George Sumey Jr. Professorship in Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on U.S. race and citizenship injustices concerning Korean\/Asian Americans, South Koreans, and Latinx immigrants, and on fights against environmental racism\/classism (esp. by women), and on comparative racialization of Latinxs and Asian and Black Americans. Throughout her work, Kim\u2019s approach centers (neo)imperialism, transnationality, and intersectionality.<\/p>\n For her book,\u00a0Refusing Death<\/a>\u00a0(NYU, 2021), Kim received the 2023 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award (Society for the Study of Social Problems), the 2023 Distinguished Scholarship Award (The Pacific Sociological Association), the 2023 Outstanding Achievement in the Social Sciences Book Award (Association of Asian American Studies) and an Honorable Mention, Best Publication Award (American Sociological Association). Kim is also the author of the award-winning book,\u00a0Imperial Citizens<\/a>\u00a0(SUP, 2008),\u00a0and has numerous award-winning journal articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This year, The B.A. Jones Lecture on Race & Society (SOAN), The R. Kragalott Lecture on Human Rights, Genocide & Mass Atrocity (HIST), and The B.F. Marsh Lecture on Public Affairs (PG) are collaborating to present a lecture and panel discussion. On Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, at 5 p.m. in Merrick Hall 301, the departments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[373],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passport-milestones"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2857,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions\/2857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newatowu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}