First published in 2009, the book has become a cornerstone in environmental sociology curricula. It has been used in 41 states鈥攁s well as in Washington, DC, and four Canadian provinces鈥攁nd at more than 170 colleges and universities, including Brown, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Northeastern, Columbia, Stony Brook, Vanderbilt, Tulane, UNC-Chapel Hill, Notre Dame, University of Colorado, Washington State University, University of Oregon, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice of CUNY.

Unlike traditional environmental studies texts, Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology adopts a distinctly sociological perspective, offering twenty carefully curated case studies authored by experienced educators and researchers. The result is a lively, adaptable collection that distills the core ideas of environmental sociology into concise, accessible chapters鈥攎aking it suitable for students across diverse academic backgrounds.

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In a world where traditional health care often falls short, Sociology Professor Naomi Braine believes there are many ways to enhance health outcomes beyond the clinical environment. With deep-rooted experience as an activist and educator, Braine鈥檚 work is focused on women鈥檚 health, drug addiction, HIV, and other issues that disproportionately affect historically resilient populations.

Since arriving at 可乐视频 in 2008, Braine has empowered her students to become the next generation of thought and action leaders in areas of public health. Reflecting on her journey, Braine shares her transition from pursuing a psychology degree to eventually embracing sociology as a means to explore social policy. She also credits her early experiences in grassroots activism as shaping both her research and teaching philosophy.

Having worked in academia, the nonprofit sector, and within grassroots activism, what initially drew you to sociology, and how has your perspective on the field evolved through your experiences in these varied roles?

I worked with teenagers while going to college and ended up a psychology major because I could get some tuition reimbursement from my job. When I graduated, I had come to understand that I didn鈥檛 want to be a therapist or a social services administrator.

I went to grad school for sociology as a pathway to studying social policy, and that continues to shape my professional work, although my interests shifted to public health. My first professional job after getting my Ph.D. came through activist connections, not academic ones, and my involvement with grassroots movements continues to shape my research and teaching. I value the ways sociology enables me to work within and across different professional worlds.

可乐视频 is known for its diverse student body. How has teaching here influenced your research and activism, and what do you hope your students take away from studying sociology with you?

Many of the students in my classes are engaged with their communities on and off campus, and they bring that energy and insight to the classroom. Together, we create a space that can exceed the boundaries of the classroom, bringing important contemporary issues into dialog with readings, assignments, and historical material.

The challenges of teaching and learning in an underfunded public institution have shaped my activism through engagement with the faculty-staff union as we strive to build the educational environment our students deserve, one that will enable them to gain the knowledge and experience necessary for the lives they aspire to create.

I take great pride in seeing my students pursue meaningful work beyond the classroom. I had the opportunity to facilitate an internship for one of my former students, Victoria St. Clair, with an organization now known as Pregnancy Justice, which operates at the intersection of reproductive justice and drug policy. Victoria not only embraced the opportunity but turned it into a full-time role, providing research and administrative support for its legal staff. She later carried that experience forward, performing similar duties for Brooklyn Defender Services.

Your current work focuses on self-managed abortion, the term commonly used to describe when a person chooses to induce their own abortion through medications taken outside of a medical setting. Can you share what inspired this focus and how you see it shaping public discourse and policy in the coming years?

My work on self-managed abortion came out of earlier work on drug-related harm reduction, both of which are examples of social movements that work at the intersection of public health and community-based action around issues that have been criminalized and marginalized.

We can see the power of self-managed abortion as a practice and a form of feminist activism in the wake of the Dobbs decision that overturned federal protections for the right to an abortion. In states where abortion has been restricted or banned, people with undesired pregnancies have been able to maintain their autonomy and self-determination with information and support from community activists.

Your book, Abortion Beyond the Law: Building a Global Feminist Movement for Self-Managed Abortion, was published at the end of 2023. What do you want readers to learn most from it?

explores the work of transnational feminist networks that support and enable self-managed abortion. I hope readers will see that it is possible to work together with other people to protect health while enabling those with undesired pregnancies to maintain bodily autonomy. I think the work of the activists in the book can also inspire and perhaps provide some guidance to people facing a range of issues at the intersection of health, justice, and self-determination.

How can people who are not sociologists or health care professionals stay informed about issues related to reproductive rights?

Reproductive health and reproductive justice are issues that everyone needs to engage with, not just specialists. Learn from and follow reliable information sources, like ReproAction or Physicians for Reproductive Health, and get involved locally with an abortion fund or women鈥檚 health organization. This is a moment when everyone needs to be actively engaged around the issues that are important to them, and remember that democracy is not just about elections and is definitely not a spectator sport.

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A child of a family of Dominican poets, writers, and educators, Luisa Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso 鈥�79 enrolled in 可乐视频 and immediately began connecting with the community of Latino and Black Caribbean students. After graduating with a Sociology and Latin American History Studies degree, Vicioso earned a master鈥檚 degree in educational program design from Columbia University and did post-graduate studies in cultural administration at Funda莽茫o Getulio Vargas in Brazil. She has worked for over 20 years at the United Nations specializing in women鈥檚 issues and education.听A promoter of Dominican women poets, Vicioso has supported their work throughout her career. She was appointed as the ambassador for women鈥檚, children鈥檚, and youth affairs for the Foreign Relations Ministry in her native country. In 2012, she was the vice presidential candidate for the Alianza Pa铆s party. The author of numerous publications, including plays, volumes of poetry, essays, short stories and novels, today, Vicioso is working on a English publication of her novel Sireno (2020) and has begun her next, titled Nuyol, about the first Dominican immigrants to arrive in 1896 New York.

Can you tell us about your background?

I was born into a family of artists. My grandfather was a journalist and poet in charge of the social chronicles of the leading newspaper on the island: The Listin Diario. My father, Tony Vicioso, revolutionized poetry and music on the island. He and my mother Maria Luisa Sanchez led a cultural group that questioned the rigid cannons we had inherited from Spain. My father was also a musician. He played seven instruments, and after he traveled to the U.S. on a scholarship for winning a painting prize, he traveled to the South. He revolutionized Spanish boleros with blues and other southern rhythms.

What decided you on 可乐视频?

In 1965, President [Lyndon B.] Johnson enacted a law requiring all universities that received federal funding to enroll minorities. 可乐视频 reached out to the Hispanic community, and eight other Dominicans and I were enrolled, with the generous help of Puerto Rican students. We subsequently met with Black students and students from other parts of the Caribbean, which provided us with new knowledge about the region since we thought the Caribbean was only 鈥淭he Greater Antilles,” which includes Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. We formed the Third World Peoples Alliance, and that is also how I learned about the great thinkers of Jamaica, like Marcus Garvey, Martinique鈥檚 Frantz Fanon, Eugenio Maria de Hostos, and leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Angela Davis, among many others. My Caribbean vision expanded.

Did you enter college knowing what career you wanted?听

When I enrolled, I ignored what career to choose. Six months enrolled and I was ready to abandon college for what I felt was the lack of intellectual challenges and debates. At the time, everyone seemed in a hurry to finish their career and get a job. I was bored. But then I met several professors essential for my intellectual development and human values. Of those, Prof. Hobart Spalding taught me to always look for the other side of the story and history. Everything I learned about my own history as a Dominican and Latino woman I owe to him. I consider Professor Huebner the best philosopher I have ever met. He taught me to love the discipline and is only surpassed by Herbert Marcuse and Eric Fromm, whom I met through him. To this day, Eros and Civilization and One Dimensional Man are books that I always recommend. I owe my professors and the university my intellectual development and sense of identity.

There was a time when women鈥檚 voices were less prominent in Dominican literature. Could you speak about that?

When I returned to the Dominican Republic all the female poets complained about not being taken听seriously and not being able听to publish, so I created听The Circle for Women Poets so we could promote our own work and that听of previous poets ignored or dismissed by the literary establishment. We also highlighted the work of peasant women who had a very particular听way of expressing themselves poetically.听I wrote the first book of feminist听literary听criticism influenced by the work of Elaine Showalter called Algo que decir, Something to Declare. The kind of aggression听against us from the patriarchy that听we received was enormous.听So I introduced what I call 鈥淐ultural Guerilla Warfare,鈥� which means that听when they听closed听the door to us as poets, we wrote essays; when they closed听that听door,听we wrote theater. I earned the National Prize in Theater Cristobal de Llerena听for my first play Wish-ky Sour. It was the first time it was awarded to a woman in the Dominican Republic; that only won me more backlash. But I also learned听resilience听in the United States, so no small island was going to defeat me or any of the Dominican women poets and writers.

You have been involved in non-governmental organizations such as the United Nations and ran for vice president in the Dominican Republic in 2012.

I worked 22 years at the United Nations and UN.-related听NGOs on women issues and education. I also ran for the vice presidency with presidential candidate Guillermo Moreno of the Alianza Pais Party, while working for the Ministry of Foreign Relations as an ambassador for women, children, and adolescent issues. It was quite an experience.

What are you are doing/working on today?

I am working听now on launching my novel Sireno and its translation into Portuguese in Brazil.听I already launched it in Lisbon, Portugal, at the Jose Saramago Foundation.听Hopefully,听in July, I will start听writing my next novel, Nuyol, about 1896 New York, when the first Dominican immigrants听arrived in the听U.S.

What advice would you give to today鈥檚 students?

I would advise students to be curious, read, and research.听Do not take any knowledge听or viewpoint for granted.听University education听will then be exciting and challenging.听Not doing so can only contribute to your homogenization and that听is a waste of your uniqueness听and intelligence.

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This annual event has become a cornerstone for the Department of Sociology for more than a decade, offering students not only a platform to share their findings but also a chance to engage with leading scholars. 可乐视频 was especially proud to have the largest contingent attend, half of whom are members of Alpha Kappa Delta, the prestigious international honor society for sociology.

鈥淭he students enjoyed an enriching experience full of conversation, connected with each other and their fellow undergraduates, and presented research that spoke to their lived experience,鈥� said Associate Professor of Sociology Namita Manohar, who is also an ESS faculty adviser. 鈥淚t was a wonderful testament to their growth as sociologists, as they begin to dream of and chart professional lives beyond college. I am deeply grateful to have accompanied them in this endeavor this year.鈥�

Graduating senior Katherine Dempsey was one of the presenters at the Eastern Sociological Society conference in Boston on March 7,

Among the standout participants was Katherine Dempsey, a graduating senior who presented research from her senior thesis, 鈥溾�榃e鈥檙e Screaming and No One Can Hear Us鈥�: The Impact of Social Media Coverage of the Muslim World on Muslim Mental Health,鈥� as part of the Media & Social Media panel. Presenting alongside sociologists who explored media framing of the COVID-19 pandemic and right-wing news organizations as a 鈥渜uasi-religious phenomenon,鈥� Dempsey offered a timely and nuanced perspective on the real-life impacts of (social) media as a news source on young adults鈥� well-being.

The students鈥� participation reflects the Sociology Department鈥檚 commitment to fostering academic and research excellence and to facilitating our students鈥� professional development. The department acknowledges with thanks the travel funding provided by the dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the 可乐视频 Foundation Kitch Foundation, and the assistance from staff in the Sociology Department, and Nate Samuel, associate director of the Faculty Training & Development Lab, for printing student posters.

Participating students had many positive things to say about their experience at the conference:

鈥淚 had the incredible opportunity to present my work that provided further understanding of Muslim mental health in sociological research. As both a panelist and a poster presenter, I was able to expand my reach to advocate about this community and their struggles. It was an honor to present this research and fill in the gap in literature about this population. With the knowledge I gained from attending the conference, I can move forward in my sociology studies to further make an impact and help more communities to thrive.鈥濃�擪atherine Dempsey

鈥淪haring my research was an unforgettable experience. It marked a powerful step forward in my journey to attain a Ph.D. and reaffirmed why I鈥檓 committed to research that drives change for immigrant and undocumented students. I鈥檓 thankful for this opportunity and already excited to return next year!鈥濃�擲ergio Leon Hidalgo

鈥淧resenting my research was a valuable opportunity for my academic growth. I collaborated with my friends on our research projects, and we had the chance to share our work with students and faculty from other colleges, which made the experience even more enriching.鈥濃�擠emetrius Joseph

鈥淚 had done a similar presentation years ago, for middle school, and I had a partner. This time, it was a college-level presentation, and I only had myself to rely on for all of the speaking. Although I began the presentation very anxious, two students who were also presenting came up to ask me some questions and interacted with me and my poster, and my nerves began to simmer down. I鈥檓 happy I got opportunity to take part in this experience.鈥濃�擧irvania Rodriguez

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BSF works to foster academic success for all students鈥攑articularly students of African descent鈥攖hrough offering support and building a collaborative community. Possessing expertise on a variety of issues from politics to sports and black masculinity, he has brought a unique perspective and expertise to both BFS and the campus as a whole. During 2025鈥檚 Black History Month, we asked Johnson about BFS鈥檚 own history, impact, and evolution at the college, as well as what advice he would give to students interested in sociology who are looking to make a difference.

The Black Faculty and Staff (BFS) organization has been active since 1971. How do you think it has evolved over that time?

BFS has changed substantially over the years. The situation of Black faculty, staff, and students is always evolving, just as things at the college are constantly changing, along with the conditions and circumstances of Black people nationally. BFS arose out of a sense of solidarity at a time when the dominant ethos in the Black community was a spirit of 鈥渘ation-building鈥濃�攁 genuine belief that we had to take care of ourselves as a people.

In the 1970s, BFS was an effort to harness the collective strength of a small group of us on campus. When I arrived at 可乐视频 in 2012, generations had changed. So much had shifted, while some things remained exactly the same. I might be a bit nostalgic, but I believe BFS must still operate with a sense of collective influence, particularly in the interest of Black students, who continue to face many of the same historical challenges but without the benefit of historical memory.

BFS must maintain continuity between the past and present. Students today are subjected to mass distractions鈥攕ocial media, tightening economic realities, and an increased culture of individualism that fosters disconnection. This makes Black students particularly vulnerable because, in the past, we thrived on a strong sense of community. Community is our challenge today.

Even as a faculty member, I was fortunate to have people like George Cunningham who had been around since the 1970s, sharing stories with me when I was new here. Others with long histories, like Robert Scott and Carrie Roberts, were still active on campus. That generation is largely gone now. Since then, people have come and gone鈥攑ermanence is impossible. But the best we can do is honor the past while embracing the challenges of the present.

As part of the leadership for BFS, what roles have you played and what have you brought to the table that you are most proud of?

I currently serve as treasurer and have been on the BFS executive board for six years, including two-year terms as president and vice president. Before that, I chaired the Faculty Engagement Committee. Titles are mostly formalities鈥攖he executive board works as a team, with each of us stepping up as needed. Over the past six years, Crystal Schloss-Allen has held the same positions. Currently, Donna Lee Granville (Sociology) is president, Crystal is vice president, Aleah Ranjitsingh (Africana Studies) is the other vice president, and Sherome Stone (Women鈥檚 Center) is secretary. We also rely on trusted colleagues who support us when needed.

I鈥檓 most proud of two key contributions. First, as president, I emphasized that 可乐视频 is not an isolated institution but part of central Brooklyn. During the pandemic, we hosted a successful online event with the Flatbush African Burial Ground, and since then, we鈥檝e welcomed them back to campus twice. One of those times, we honored their president, Samantha Bernadine, with a community award during our Donning of the Kente ceremony. I鈥檝e also invited community leaders to campus, including former State Assembly and City Councilmember Charles Barron, current State Assemblymember Stefani Zinerman, and activists from The December 12th Movement, who have led the national reparations struggle for decades. My goal is to further integrate scholarship with community engagement.

Second, I initiated bringing Donning of the Kente to campus, a project I had envisioned even before the pandemic. This May, we will proudly celebrate its third year.

You are known as a great mentor to students. What advice would you give students who are interested in studying sociology, and how do you feel it prepares them well for life after college?

The advice I would give to students is to trust and believe in themselves, embrace their status as students as much as possible, and avoid rushing the process unless absolutely necessary. Students often focus too much on the next step, but there is so much to appreciate in the present. The greatest benefit of taking their time is the opportunity to engage with staff and faculty who genuinely care about helping them. By doing so, they give themselves more time to build networks and maximize opportunities, both in the short and long term.

For current and prospective sociology students, it鈥檚 important to understand that sociology prioritizes a unique perspective on how to interpret our dynamic social world and all its moving parts. Of course, this competes with the pressure to secure a well-paying job after graduation. However, many of our students go on to work in a wide range of fields, and one common thread among them is that their sociology background has helped them better understand the context in which they work. Our graduates include educators, counselors, lawyers, social workers, politicians, and political strategists. We also have alumni in television, theater, business, entrepreneurship, and beyond.

My best advice is to embrace being a student鈥攕tay curious about the world and take the time to explore what you truly want to do. Try to silence the voice that urges you to rush through school just to start making money. That pressure never goes away, but the opportunity to learn and grow as a student is invaluable.

You contributed to the book Until We鈥檙e Seen, which was edited by fellow faculty Joseph Entin and Jeanne Theoharis and shares firsthand accounts of the pandemic鈥檚 devastating effects on working-class communities of color. What made you want to get involved with that?

I think both Joseph and Jeanne are faculty members who consistently do inspirational work with students. Faculty like them, who provide strong leadership on campus, help us reimagine what 可乐视频 can and should be. I also want to highlight Dominick Braswell, another editor. He is currently a Ph.D. student studying housing, but he was once a student in the Mellon Transfer Research Program and someone I mentored through the Black and Latino Male Initiative.

I am grateful to have been asked to contribute because there is so much to learn from our students鈥攖heir experiences, perspectives, and what they bring to campus, all of which deserve deeper exploration. These insights offer us an opportunity to develop the most transformative model of education in a post-industrial city like New York.

At the book event on campus, I stated that the chapters in the text represent the unfinished revolution in higher education鈥攐ne that began with the Black student activism of 1968, which led to the creation of Black Studies/Africana Studies. Even with new attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), I still believe that our vision was never just DEI, but something far more revolutionary. The longer we delay in truly listening to and embracing what our students are telling us, the greater the chance that another institution will take the lead in implementing the student-centered changes that could define 可乐视频鈥檚 future.

What research and initiatives are you proud of?

听My primary research has always focused on Black politics. In Until We鈥檙e Seen, I discuss the tradition of what is called 鈥渋nvisible politics.鈥� It鈥檚 not a complicated concept鈥攊t refers to the vital activities Black people engage in daily to compensate for a lack of resources in our communities or to protect ourselves from vulnerabilities rooted in racism. It also represents a more authentic political expression of Black people that is not fully captured by mainstream political parties. One of the longest-standing but largely invisible political struggles in American history is the fight for reparations for enslaved Black people and their descendants, which has persisted since 1783.

Earlier, I mentioned that the December 12th Movement came to campus to discuss reparations. This event, held before Black Solidarity Day, was hosted by the student club, the Black Solidarity Day Committee, and BFS. Our guests spoke about the 鈥淒urban 400,鈥� a group of nearly 400 people who traveled to Durban, South Africa, in 2001 for the United Nations World Conference Against Racism. The conference resulted in the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, which formally established in international law that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity. Since then, the reparations movement has become more visible to the public but remains fragmented.

My current project aims to produce contemporary scholarship on the subject to deepen the understanding of reparations as an organizing tradition, a political movement, and a revolutionary force. I seek to connect this struggle to developments in the Caribbean and on the African continent, highlighting its global significance, which starts with the December 12th Movement.

We are getting prepared for Commencement. Can you tell us a little bit about the origins of the annual Donning of the Kente ceremony and its significance to students and faculty at 可乐视频?

The most direct origin of Donning of the Kente (DOK) dates back to the African-centered education movement in the early 1990s. It was a deliberate effort to introduce culturally relevant pedagogy and curriculum while addressing the erasure of African people from world and U.S. history. A key aspect of this movement was reconnecting with the cultural motifs of the earlier Black Power movement, during which we began embracing Africa as a place of tradition and history to take pride in. The Kente cloth, in particular, symbolizes Pan-Africanism and is closely associated with Ghana and its former president Kwame Nkrumah.

When I was an undergraduate at Iowa State University in 2002, I participated in a Kente ceremony, and I know that Africana Studies at 可乐视频 has been 鈥渄onning鈥� its graduating students with Kente for years. Donning of the Kente at is an effort to recognize all graduating students who identify as Black of African descent. Last year鈥檚 theme was 鈥淲oven Tapestry鈥� to reflect the diversity of Black students who come from all over the world and to acknowledge that our achievements are shared accomplishments that strengthen our community. Our unity on campus enhances social life as a whole. The theme of this year鈥檚 ceremony is based on the Akan principle of Sankofa, which emphasizes the importance of remembering our history to move forward.

Through DOK, we hope our students understand that Black history encompasses both triumphant accomplishments and painful lessons that equip us to navigate the present and future. Along with Black Solidarity Day, DOK is one of BFS鈥� two signature events. Although we often face financial hurdles in making this happen, we are empowered by our history and the belief that our students deserve to be recognized. Please celebrate with us on Friday, May 2. If you would like to get involved or support us, please email blackfacultyandstaff@brooklyn.cuny.edu.

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During his residency at the prestigious public research university, Gould gave a public lecture on Oct. 15. The lecture, examined how governments make decisions about investment after coastal disasters created by climate change.

Gould also lectured at the University of Auckland鈥檚 School of Social Sciences on “Climate Change, Disaster Capitalism & Environmental Justice: Some Implications for Island Nations鈥� and ran workshops for graduate students and early-career faculty on socio-environmental research design, and career development. While in New Zealand, Gould also gave a lecture for science faculty at Victoria University of Wellington.

Watch an interview on climate change and the ecological crisis with Gould and Professor Luke Goode from the University of Auckland .

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(Left to right) Isabella Clark 鈥�17, Professor Tammy Lewis, and Professor Diane Bates from The College of New Jersey help celebrate Lewis’ Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award.

The award is given annually to recognize individuals for outstanding service, innovation, or publication in environmental sociology. It is intended to be an expression of appreciation, awarded when an individual is deemed extraordinarily meritorious by the Section.

One of Lewis鈥� former Urban Sustainability students, Isabella Clark ’17, a Ph.D. student in environmental sociology at the University of Oregon, was a co-presenter of the award.

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I was born and raised in Taiwan. I came to New York at 27 to attend 可乐视频 for my master鈥檚 degree.

Why did you choose 可乐视频?

As an international student, I looked for a college that could provide me with a quality education and access to greater opportunities. I wanted to study in Brooklyn because of听the听diverse student population and key location in New York City.

You earned a master鈥檚 degree in sociology.

It was a field I fell in love with, and the classes and professors alike. My time at 可乐视频 gave me a real sense of what New York City is about鈥攄iversity, opportunity, and a path to thrive.

What was your first job after graduation?

I worked as a community journalist at World Journal, the largest Chinese-language听newspaper in the United States.听I wrote about current events and major local news for the Asian-American community in Brooklyn.

What inspired you to enter politics and, more recently, to run for State Senate?

As a journalist, I often amplified the issues and experiences of the local Asian-American community. But there was a disconnect when it came to the solutions and available resources in New York City because of language and cultural differences. I knew I wanted to amplify these stories and be a part of the solution. Anyone can make a difference in society if civically engaged and politically involved.

I joined the office of former Assemblyman Peter J. Abbate, who represented the Sunset Park, Dyker Heights,听and Bensonhurst neighborhoods. I was chief of staff for 10 years, bridging the gap between state government and the southern Brooklyn community. It was inspiring each time the office resolved a constituent case, connected someone to a resource, or addressed a local matter. In 2022, after the redistricting of New York State and federal districts, a new Senate district (the 17th district) was created in Brooklyn. This newly created Asian plurality district was formed of neighborhoods I served in many capacities. I decided to throw my hat into the ring to bring a strong voice for Brooklyn鈥檚 diverse and vibrant communities.

What do you most want your impact on the Senate to be? What are your biggest goals?

I want the younger generation to see they can work hard and achieve their greatest dreams. I am the first Asian woman in the New York State Senate, and I鈥檓 excited to forge a path for our next generation of leaders. In my position, I am bringing more resources and investments to our immigrant communities. My goals center on education and opportunities for our youth. I鈥檓 fighting for our public schools to be fully funded and for major investments in the City University of New York. Through my efforts in the Senate, I hope to empower students with the tools to thrive in their passions.

When you were a child, what did you think you would be when you grew up?

I knew I wanted to positively impact people鈥檚 lives but did not have an exact role in mind. I pushed myself during my academic career to explore my curiosities and passions. There is no limit to dreaming big and believing in yourself. There was no long-term plan to become an elected official, but my journey in public service brought me there. I鈥檓 proud to be the first Asian-American woman in the State Senate and the first to ever represent this district.

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Jeanne Theoharis

On November 29, from 2:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., Smith will be part of a conversation on campus with 可乐视频鈥檚 Distinguished Professor of Political Science听Jeanne Theoharis. The pair will discuss selected clips from the documentary, 鈥�,鈥� which features Smith and is also based on Theoharis鈥� research and book of the same name. Smith and Theoharis will explore Rosa Parks’ life of freedom fighting, how the many myths of Parks and the movement cloud our understandings of social change, the roles and experiences of women in the movement, and the lessons this history provides for the work of organizing and social justice today. After their conversation, there will be a Q&A period for students, staff, and faculty.

The event will be held in the library鈥檚 Woody Tanger Auditorium and will also be livestreamed on the Wolfe Institute鈥檚 YouTube channel. At the speaker鈥檚 request, masks are required for the in-person event. Room 441 in the library will also be open for guests to watch the lecture online.

You can watch the livestream of the event

To stream the documentary for free before the event, 可乐视频 students, faculty, and staff can email:听wolfeinstitute@brooklyn.cuny.edu

More Hess Scholar-in-Residence lectures will be held in March 2023, and a complete schedule of events will be made available soon.

About the Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program

The Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Program, established by 可乐视频, is supported by the Robert L. Hess Fund. The program serves as a permanent tribute to the scholarly commitment of Robert L. Hess, exemplified during his tenure as president of 可乐视频. It represents the ideal of the educated individual鈥攌nowledgeable, thoughtful, inquiring, alive to the shared purposes and concerns linking all intellectual pursuits. More particularly, it evokes the scholarly and academic virtues embodied in the curriculum at 可乐视频.

Sponsors

Africana Studies Department; American Studies Program; Anthropology Department; Caribbean Studies Program; Classics Department; the Shirley Chisholm Project; Communications Arts, Sciences, and Disorders Department; English Department; Film Department; History Department; the Honors Academy; Judaic Studies Department; the LGBTQ Resource Center; Modern Languages and Literatures Department; Philosophy Department; Political Science Department; Puerto Rican and Latino Studies Department; Sociology Department; Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies Program; and the Women鈥檚 Center at 可乐视频.

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