20th Anniversary Pat Reif Memorial Lecture feat. Dr. Shannen Dee Williams
Schedule
Mon Oct 17 2022 at 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm
Location
Albrecht Auditorium | Claremont, CA
About this Event
America's Real Sister Act: The Hidden History of Black Catholic Nuns in the United States.
Lecture featuring Dr. Shannen Dee Williams. (In-person and virtual)
For most people, Whoopi Goldberg's performance as Sister Mary Clarence in Sister Act is the dominant interpretation of an African American nun and the desegregation of white Catholic sisterhood in the United States. In this talk, Dr. Shannen Dee Williams will explore the story of America's real sister act: the story of how generations of Black women and girls called to the sacred vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience fought against racism, sexism, and exclusion to become and minster as consecrated women of God in the Roman Catholic Church. In so doing, she will turn attention to women's religious life as a stronghold of white supremacy and racial segregation, and thus an important battleground in the long African American freedom struggle.
- Monday, October 17, 2022 | 7:00 pm.
- Claremont Graduate University Albrecht Auditorium | 925 N. Dartmouth Avenue Claremont, CA 91711
- Live-streaming option available
**This event is free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be provided.
Dr. Shannen Dee Williams is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Dayton. A historian of the African American experience with research and teaching specializations in women's, religious and Black freedom movement history, Williams is the author of Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle, which was published by Duke University Press in May 2022.
Dr. Williams's research is supported by a host of fellowships, grants & awards, including a Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City, a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Fellowship in Religion and Ethics from the Woodrow Wilson National Foundation, an Albert J. Beveridge Grant from the American Historical Association and the John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Award from the American Catholic Historical Association. She has been published in the Journal of African American History, American Catholic Studies, the Washington Post, America Magazine, and the National Catholic Reporter. A Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, Dr. Williams also authors the award-winning column, "The Griot's Cross," published by the Catholic News Service.
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