An Evening With Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, Ph.D.

Event Details

Ashley Hall Writers Series presents
An Evening With AMRITA CHAKRABARTI MYERS, PH.D.
February 3, 2021 | 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
This event will be offered as a digital presentation.
Open to the public and free of charge. Registration required.
Please visit ashleyhall.org/WritersSeries

Ashley Hall, in partnership with College of Charleston's Avery Research Center, is pleased to present noted scholar Amrita Myers, Ph.D., who will discuss her book Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston during an interview with American history scholar and Upper School faculty member Chris Frisby. A Question and Answer session will follow.

Dr. Myers is the Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor of History and Gender Studies at Indiana University. As a historian of the Black female experience in the United States, her research interests revolve around issues of race, gender, freedom, and power and the ways in which these constructs intersect with one another in the lives of Black women in the Old South.