Tanner Humanities Center Presents: A Conversation with Martha S. Jones
Martha S. Jones
Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 | 12 p.m. | Virtual
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Professor Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at the SNF Agora Institute at The Johns Hopkins University. She is a legal and cultural historian whose work examines how Black Americans have shaped the story of American democracy. Jones is the author of "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All" (2020), selected as one of Time's 100 must-read books for 2020. Jones is also author of "All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture 1830-1900" (2007) and co-editor of "Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (University of North Carolina Press" (2015), together with many articles and essays.
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Tanner Talk with Safiya Noble
Safiya Noble
Thursday, March 4, 2021 | 12 p.m. | Virtual
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Safiya Umoja Noble is an associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Department of Information Studies where she serves as the co-founder and co-director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry (C2i2). She also holds appointments in African American studies and gender studies. She is a research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford and has been appointed as a commissioner on the Oxford Commission on AI & Good Governance (OxCAIGG). She is a board member of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, serving those vulnerable to online harassment, and serves on the NYU Center Critical Race and Digital Studies advisory board. She is the author of a best-selling book on racist and sexist algorithmic bias in commercial search engines, entitled "Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism" (NYU Press), which has been widely reviewed in scholarly and popular publications.
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