Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale
The Afro-American Cultural Center announces its inaugural
Emerging Scholars Colloquium
Wednesday, October 9
5:30 pm
Dinner served at 5:45 pm
Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale
211 Park Street
RSVP Required**
The
Emerging Scholars Colloquium is designed to invite young scholars,
developing in their discipline, to talk about their research and
scholarly work over dinner with a small group of students, faculty and
staff and New Haven residents.
** Space for the colloquium is limited reserve your space with an RSVP email to craig.holloway@yale.edu
By Monday, October 7 at 5:00 pm
This year’s first presenter is Orly Clerge
Orly
Clerge is a Postdoctoral Associate for the Urban Ethnography Workshop
in the Department of Sociology at Yale University. She received her
Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Demography at Brown University in 2013.
She is a graduate of Wheaton College, where she received her bachelor’s
degree in Sociology. Orly's research interests are in urban sociology,
race and ethnicity and immigration/migration. Her dissertation, titled
"Black Identities Revisited: New and Old African Americans in Middle
Class New York" examines the social and cultural integration of black
immigrants into the African American middle class. Orly's research has
been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Society for
the Study of Social Problems.
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