Race, Crime, and Community Lecture Series
This series of lectures will focus on current issues in police-community relations in the United States. Following incidents in Ferguson, New York, and Cleveland, along with protests across the country, police-community relations have been at the forefront of popular media accounts as well as academic research. The following scholarly presentations will be conducted throughout the month of March and will conclude with a guest lecture by Dr. Alice Goffman from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Thursday, April 2nd, 2015 at 6:30pm in the Russell Union Theater. Students, faculty, and staff are welcome to attend all lectures and attendance verification has been arranged. Questions and comments can be directed to Chad Posick at cposick@georgiasouthern.edu.
March 9th, 2015 – 2:30-3:45pm
Carroll Building Room 2229
Ghosts of Ferguson: Race and Rebellion in Urban America, 1914-1992
Presented by:
Dr. Eric Hall
Assistant Professor of History
March 12th, 2015 – 9:30-10:45am
Information Technology Building Room 1004
Please Don’t Take My Husband: The Consequences of Criminalizing Undocumented Immigration
Presented by:
Dr. April Schueths
Assistant Professor of Sociology
March 26th, 2015– 9:30-10:45am
Information Technology Building Room 1004
The Role of Racial Stereotypes in Police-Community Interactions: Integrating Understanding and Empathy
Presented by:
Dr. Amy Hackney
Associate Professor of Psychology
Dr. Chad Posick
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice & Criminology
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