The Black Lives in the New South Speaker Series would like to invite you to "Race, Place and Gender in the South - A Medical Anthropological Perspective" presented by Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson.

Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson is Mott Distinguished Professor of Women's Studies, Director of Africana Women's Studies and formerly Associate Director of the Honors Program at Bennett college in Greensboro, North Carolina. As a scholar and educator Johnson engages in activities that promote the stewardship of the natural, historic, and cultural resources in North Carolina as part of the larger global community; foster scholarship in the area of women and girls health; and actively participates in the support and growth of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Sponsored by: the Women and Minority Artists and Scholars Lecture Series, the Women's and Gender Studies Program, the Department of Sociology, the Gloria Smith Professor of Africana Studies, and the Race and Social Policy Research Center.

Location:	Newman Library Multipurpose Room
Price:	Free and open to the public
Contact:	Dr. Ellington Graves egraves@vt.edu
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