I am in the process of organizing a panel for the Third Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on race scheduled to take place at Monmouth University November 8-10 in 2012. The conference theme is “Access and Privilege in Higher Education.” The topic of the panel that I am organizing is “Black Women in the Ivory Tower.” My paper is an analysis of the life of Anna Julia Cooper in historical context. I hope to bring together additional scholars writing on the topic of black women in higher education past and present from various disciplinary perspectives. Some suggested paper topics are as follows:

Black Women, Higher Education, and the Civil Rights Movement
Black Women and the Tenure Process
Black Women in Academia on Predominantly White College Campuses

This conference is interdisciplinary and in the past has included scholars from more than a dozen nations and fifteen U.S. states. Please send your 250 word abstract to hwilliam@monmouth.edu and include your contact information.

Hettie V. Williams
Lecturer, African American History
Department of History and Anthropology
Monmouth University
400 Cedar Avenue
07764
hwilliam@monmouth.edu