 |
 |
Dear folks, Happy new year. On Thursday, January 16, 2020, Dr. Maurice Hobson, associate professor of African-American Studies at Georgia State University, will deliver an MLK Day lecture titled, “The King of the World: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Public Memory.” The lecture will take place in the Haslam Business Building, Room 203 at 5:30p.m. (see attached poster). Dr. Maurice Hobson is an Associate Professor of African American Studies and Historian at Georgia State University. He earned the Ph.D. degree in History, focusing in African American History and 20th Century U.S. History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are grounded in the fields of African American history, 20th Century U.S. history, comparative labor, African American studies, oral history and ethnography, urban and rural history, political economy, and popular cultural studies. He is the author of award-winning book titled The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Best wishes, DA Derek H. Alderman, PhD Professor of Geography<http://geography.utk.edu/about-us/faculty/dr-derek-alderman/>