Presidential Lecture featuring Yale University Cultural Historian Hazel Carby

Yale University Cultural Historian Hazel Carby will deliver the first of three Presidential and Endowed Lectures in the Humanities and Arts this year. Her lecture is entitled ?Child of Empire: Racializing Subjects in Post World War II Britain.? A lecture discussion will take place at the Stanford Humanities Center the following day at 4 p.m.

Carby is currently the Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies and Professor of American Studies at Yale, where she has taught since 1989. The author of many wide-ranging essays, her books include Reconstructing Womanhood (Oxford University Press, 1987), Race Men (Harvard University Press, 1998), and Cultures in Babylon (Verso, 1999).