Join us as Evelynn M. Hammonds, Dean of Harvard College, discusses “Diversity in Higher Education.” Prior to her tenure as dean, Hammonds served as Harvard University’s first Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity from July 2005 to June 2008. She is also the Barbara Gutman Rosenkrantz Professor of History of Science and of African and African American Studies.

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.

Welcome and introductions will be made by Professor Barbara Ransby, Director of Gender and Women’s Studies at UIC; Michael Tanner, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; and Professor William Walden, Special Assistant to the Provost for Diversity.

This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are required and can be made by sending an email to Nadia Sulayman at nsulay1@uic.edu. For more information, call 312.996.2441.  

This event is presented by the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at UIC.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of African-American Studies at UIC,  The Public Square, and UIC WISE (Women in Science and Engineering). 

More about our keynote speaker

Evelynn M. Hammonds, Dean of Harvard College, also served as Harvard University’s first Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity from July 2005 to June 2008. She is 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 is also the co-editor of a book published this past fall, 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 the author of the article, “Gendering the Epidemic: Feminism and the Epidemic of HIV/AIDS in the United States, 1981-1999” which appeared in Science, Medicine, and Technology in the 20th Century: What Difference Has Feminism Made? (2000).

For more information, call 312.996.2441.