EVENT: September 28, 2023 - OU AFAM Welcomes Dr. Ife Williams

Please join Security in Context and the University of Oklahoma for an event where OU AFAM welcomes Ife Williams.

Dr. Ife Williams is a Political Science and Africana History Professor at Deleware County Community College in Pennsylvania. Her manuscript, Police Brutality: A Philadelphia Story (2023) tells a centuries-long history of policing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania through the 1980s. Dr. Williams is the recipient of a 2022 "Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellowship" for her immense digital humanities project mapping slave revolts and resistance against enslavement across the African Diaspora over a 200-year period. Dr. Williams is the past President of the African Heritage Studies Association (2018-2021), and a Fulbright scholar who has represented the United States in Tanzania and Barbados.

WHEN: Thursday, September 28, 2023, 1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. CT (2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. ET)

WHERE: Oklahoma University, Bizzell Memorial Library, Room LL118 - Join via Zoom: CLICK HERE