UIC Gender and Women’s Studies Program: Evelynn Hammonds, "Diversity in Higher Education”

UIC Gender and Women’s Studies Program Presents:
Evelynn Hammonds, Dean of Harvard College "Diversity in Higher Education”

Friday, November 6th, 2009
4:00pm-5:30pm

University of Illinois at Chicago
Student Center East
Illinois Room B
750 S. Halsted, Chicago, IL 60607

Welcome and introductions by:
Professor Barbara Ransby, Director of Gender and Women’s Studies Michael Tanner, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Professor William Walden, Special Assistant to the Provost for Diversity


Evelynn M. Hammonds*, Dean of Harvard College, served as Harvard University’s first Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity beginning in July 2005. She is also the Barbara Gutman Rosenkrantz Professor of History of Science and of African and African American Studies.

Dean Hammonds joined Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 2002 after teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she was also the founding director of the Center for the Study of Diversity in Science, Technology and Medicine. Her scholarly interests include the history of scientific, medical, and sociopolitical concepts of race and sexuality, the history of disease and public health, gender in science and medicine, and African-American history.

She is the author of “Childhood's Deadly Scourge: The Campaign to Control Diphtheria in New York City, 1880-1930”, many scholarly articles and the co-editor of a book published this past fall entitled, “The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics.” She has published articles on the history of disease, race and science, African American feminism, African American women and the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, and analyses of gender and race in science and medicine. She is also the author of the article "Gendering the Epidemic: Feminism and the Epidemic of HIV/AIDS in the United States, 1981-1999" which appears in *Science,Medicine, and Technology in the 20th Century: What Difference Has Feminism Made?* (2000).

RSVP: Nadia Sulayman at nsulay1@uic.edu