Keynote Speaker Series

The keynote speakers provide an opportunity to expand ones view of race and race-related issues. The speakers are brought in from all over the United States. They are selected based on their outstanding reputation in researching and dealing with race-related issues.

Here is a list of Keynote speakers, and their topics of discussion during Rethinking Race week:

Keynote Speaker	Title	Topic
Cornel West	Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University	Diversity and Multiculturalism
Evelyn Hu Dehart	Professor of History, and Director of the center for the study of race and ethnicity in America at Brown University	Race, Immigration and Citizenship: Deconstructing the 'Illegal Alien
TJ Leyden	Founder of Hate to Hope Inc, Co-author of Skinhead Confessions	Turning Away From Hate
Rosina Hassoun	Visiting Assistant Professor at Michigan State University	Racialization and Stereotyping of Arabs and Muslim Americans
Greg Robinson	Franklin Professor of Chemistry, University of Georgia	Chemistry, Race, Football, and O. Henry
Stephen Maynard Caliendo	Professor of political science at North Central College	Race, Politics and Elections
Brenda J. Allen	Professor of Communication at University of Colorado, Denver	Difference Matters: Communicating Identity in the U.S.
Robert Munoz	Professor at Portland State University	Just Juans, Can You See Them as American: Denied, Dreaming and Daring in America for Centuries
Preacher Moss	A stand-up comic, a speaker and teacher	Roo Talk
Hari Jones	Curator of the African American Civil War	Slavery to Freedom: Civil War to Civil Rights... and Beyond
99 Questions	Mark Cryer, Associate Professor at Hamilton College	You’ve Always Wanted to Ask an African American but Were Too Afraid for Fear They’d Break Their Foot Off in Your A**
David Williams	Professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology at Harvard University	Social Inequities in Health: Patterns, Causes and the Cost of Doing Nothing
Color Line Project		Collected stories at numerous story circles provide a provocative and personal portrait of our community, its promise and its continuing struggle with racism

Please visit our Rethinking Race website often for UPDATES, times, and locations. Links are also provided to biographies and informational sites for the keynote speakers. Contact us if you have any questions.

Please send any information related to Keynote Speakers to sm110@zips.uakron.edu