2014-2015: Race and Justice in America

Ann Morning

Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University

Ann Morning is an Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University and a faculty affiliate of New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research interests include race, demography, and the sociology of science, especially as they pertain to census classification worldwide and to individuals’ concepts of racial difference.

• Ann Morning

Charles Ogletree

Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law

Charles Ogletree, the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, and Founding and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, is a prominent legal theorist who has made an international reputation by taking a hard look at complex issues of law and by working to secure the rights guaranteed by the Constitution for everyone equally under the law.

• Charles Ogletree

Martha Nussbaum

Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago

Martha Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, appointed in the Law School and Philosophy Department.

• Martha Nussbaum

Phillip Atiba Goff

Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles

Dr. Goff is an Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the co-founder and president for research of the Center for Policing Equity.

• Phillip Atiba Goff

Jesmyn Ward

Paul and Debra Gibbons Professor of Creative Writing at Tulane University

Jesmyn Ward’s novel Salvage the Bones won the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction, and has been called “fearless and toughly lyrical” (The Library Journal).

• Jesmyn Ward

Tommie Shelby

Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University

Tommie Shelby holds a joint appointment with the Department of African and African American Studies and Philosophy at Harvard University. He received his B.A. from Florida A & M University (1990) and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh (1998).

• Tommie Shelby

Juan Cartagena

President and General Counsel of LatinoJustice PRLDEF

Civil rights attorney Juan Cartagena will give a talk entitled “The Noose, the Hoodie and the State,” in which he will explicate the multitude of ways in which our criminal justice system is structured to deny justice to Latinos.

• Juan Cartagena

Vincent Valdez

Art Exhibition, Staniar Gallery

Vincent Valdez’s work consists of large-scale hyper-realistic oil and pastel works that focus on subjects with socio-political themes. In The Strangest Fruit series, Valdez explores the widespread lynching of people of Mexican descent in Texas between 1848 and 1928.

• Vincent Valdez

W&L Community Events

While most Mudd Center events are free and open to the public, some events are restricted to Washington and Lee students, faculty, and staff.

• W&L Community Events