Modern Times Lecture Series
Black Influences on the Founding of the University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Edmund T. Gordon
Sunday, February 19, 2023 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST
**Doors at 2:00, Lecture at 2:30
In Person and Online!
Tickets
$10 General Admission
$5 Student
Free for NCHM Members
The University of Texas desegregated in 1958, but long before that Black men and women were having a profound impact on the development of the University and its relationship with the city of Austin.
Dr. Edmund T. Gordon discusses Black Texans’ influence on the founding of the University of Texas and details Black involvement and exclusion from the school’s early history.
About the Speaker
Edmund T. Gordon, Ph.D., is the founding (former) chair of the African and African Diaspora Studies Department, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology of the African Diaspora, and Executive Director of the Contextualization and Commemoration Initiative at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Gordon also formerly served as Vice Provost for Diversity, as Associate Vice President of Thematic Initiatives and Community Engagement of the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, and as Director of the Center for African and African American Studies at The University of Texas.
Dr. Gordon’s teaching and research interests include Culture and power in the African Diaspora, gender studies (particularly Black males), critical race theory, race education, and the racial economy of space and resources. His publications include Disparate Diasporas: Identity and Politics in an African-Nicaraguan Community, 1998 UT Press. Dr. Gordon received his Doctorate in Social Anthropology from Stanford University and his Master’s of Arts from Stanford University in Anthropology and Master’s degree in Marine Sciences from the University of Miami.