St. Clair Drake Memorial Lecture featuring Roderick A. Ferguson

African & African American Studies (AAAS) at Stanford University presents the annual St. Clair Drake Memorial Lecture featuring Roderick A. Ferguson.

“Celebrating Student Demand and Stanford AAAS Departmentalization”

Roderick A. Ferguson is the William Robertson Coe Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of One- Dimensional Queer (Polity, 2019), We Demand: The University and Student Protests (University of California, 2017), The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (University of Minnesota, 2012), and Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (University of Minnesota, 2004). He is the co-editor with Grace Hong of the anthology Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (Duke University, 2011). He is also co-editor with Erica Edwards and Jeffrey Ogbar of Keywords of African American Studies (NYU, 2018). He is the 2020 recipient of the Kessler Award from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS).

The lecture will take place via Zoom on Thursday, May 26 at 3:00 PM PST. 

The St. Clair Drake Memorial Lectures are dedicated to the memory of Professor St.Clair Drake, reowned African American anthropologist and educator, and the founding Director of the Program in African & African American Studies at Stanford University.

St. Clair Drake Memorial Lecture presented by African & African American Studies (AAAS). Visit our website at aaas.stanford.edu for more information about the program.