Urban Research Seminar

The NYU Urban Initiative presents Professor Geoff Ward as the next speaker in a line up of eminent international scholars for Urban Research Seminar.  He will present a talk titled, "Monumental Antiracism: The Case for Reparative Memory Work." This event series is open to the greater NYU community in an effort to integrate NYU's faculty and students with a keen interest in cities.

Geoff Ward is a Professor of African and African-American Studies and faculty affiliate in the Department of Sociology and American Culture Studies Program at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also director of the WashU & Slavery Project, an initiative of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2), in partnership with the global consortium of Universities Studying Slavery, and co-lead of Memory for the Future, a public humanities lab in St. Louis.