ARGUMENT AND ADVOCACY EVENT - JMU Visiting Scholar

JMU Visiting Scholars Program
Proudly Presents
Nkiru Nzegwu
Chair, Africana Studies Department and
Director, Africa Resource Center
Binghamton University

Thursday, February 5, 4:00 p.m.
Taylor 405

Gender & African Art:
A Curious Intersectionality

Nkiru Nzegwu is Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Binghamton University. She is the author or editor of nine critical volumes and exhibition catalogues, including The New African Diaspora; Family Matters: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture; Debating Motherhood: African and Nordic Perspectives; Uncommon Beauty in Common Objects: The Legacy of African American Craft; and Olokoto: Songs of Chima. She is the author of over 100 chapters in books, journal articles, translations, entries in encyclopedias, articles in catalogues and on-line publications. She is the co-author of JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies and West African Review. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Ijele: Art eJournal of the African World. She has won two awards for excellence in electronic publishing for her work with JENdA. She has also won a Senior Humanities Fellowship from UCLA; a Society for the Humanities Fellowship from Cornell; and a Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship.