The Diversity Research Café
An interdisciplinary and inclusive community of scholars
One of our recent initiatives is the Diversity Research Cafe, intended to incubate new interests, curricular offerings, insights into classroom approaches, research ideas, and collaborative projects. The Diversity Research Café is a space for faculty, staff and graduate students to join an inclusive interdisciplinary community of scholars sharing research, pedagogy, and insights about diversity, gender, women, and sexuality in a relaxed setting.
Recent Lectures
M. Cristina Alcalde
Affiliation: Alcalde is a professor of gender and women's studies and Marie Rich endowed professor; associate dean of inclusion and internationalization with the College of Arts and Sciences; and director of the online graduate certificate in diversity and inclusion at the University of Kentucky.
Topic: Feminist Practices and Intersectional Approaches in the Service of Institutional Change: Challenges and Opportunities
Lisa Bowleg
Affiliation: Lisa Bowleg, Ph.D., professor of applied social psychology at The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., and director of the social and behavioural sciences core, D.C. Center for AIRS Research.
Topic: The Intersectionality Tool Kit
Sharon Block
Affiliation: Sharon Block, Ph.D., to the Diversity Research Cafe, hosted by the Department of Women and Gender Studies. Block is a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine.
Topic: De-Policing the Classroom: Teaching Race, Sexuality, and Colonialism
Rebecca Davis
Affiliation: Rebecca Davis, Ph.D., to The Diversity Research Café. Davis is an associate professor of history at UD with a joint appointment in the Department of Women & Gender Studies.
Topic: Sexing in Public: History, Podcasting, and Our Political Moment
Duchess Harris
Affiliation: Dr. Harris, Chair of the American Studies Department at Macalester College, MN, earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School and at the Womanist Studies Consortium at the University of Georgia.
Topic: Teaching in the Era of Black Lives Matter
Aída Hurtado
Affiliation: Aída Hurtado, Ph.D., to the Diversity Research Cafe, hosted by the Department of Women and Gender Studies and co-sponsored by UD ADVANCE Institute. Hurtado is a professor and Luis Leal Endowed Chair in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Topic: Feminism in the Age of Trump
