CANCELED Radical South Brown Bag Lecture: Ellen Spears on Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town

Due to weather-related travel issues for the speaker, this event has been canceled.

“Writing Histories of Environmentalism in the US South”

Building on histories of environmental activism in the southern US, Ellen Griffith Spears’s talk explores the challenges facing American environmentalism in 2017.

Spears is an associate professor in the interdisciplinary New College and the Department of American Studies at the University of Alabama. Her research is broadly interdisciplinary, combining environmental and civil rights history with studies of science, technology, and public health. Her book, Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town, published in 2014 by the University of North Carolina Press, explores key questions faced by communities that seek to address systemic class and race inequalities and to tackle toxic pollution.

This is a special Thursday Brown Bag Lecture.