Professor Sharla Fett is the Sterling Award Recipient for 2018 and will be giving her lecture titled, "Black Women's Politics of Healing in the Wake."
From slavery to the present, Black women healers have confronted the commodification and devaluation of Black life. Their work and thought thus transcended matters of individual health and addressed a wider array of social ills. Examining Black women's healing practices across time reveals a politics of survival and reclamation meant to counter the hostile climate of slavery and its many afterlives.
Lecture is free and open to the public. Reception to follow at 5:30pm in the AGC 2nd floor rotunda.
The Graham L. Sterling Memorial Award was established in 1972 to recognize a faculty member with a distinguished record of teaching, service and professional achievement.
