Wednesday, October 29
12:30 - 1:40 pm
Rockefeller 190
Michell Chresfield is an assistant professor of African American history in the Africana Studies and Research Center where her research and teaching focuses on Black and Indigenous histories, the history of science and medicine, and the history of racial formation and identity making in twentieth century America.
Dr. Chresfield’s current book project, positioned at the intersections of African American history, Native American Studies, and the history of science asks, “What does it mean to be both Black and Native? And how does scientific knowledge mediate that lived experience?” What Lies Between: Science and the Making of Native Identity in a Black and White World, explores how communities of purported “red-white-black” ancestry, have worked with and against the emergent sciences of the 20th century in order to make and challenge notions of identity and belonging.
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