The Future Is Now. And Then.

Event: November 9, 2022 |

From the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy /

The LBJ School of Public Affairs Center for the Study of Race and Democracy and The University of Texas at Austin's Department of History bring you a conversation with Dr. Jeremi Suri and Dr. Peniel Joseph as they discuss their new books, Civil Way by Other Means and The Third Reconstruction.

Speakers:

Peniel Joseph, Ph.D, Associate Dean for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion; Professor of Public Affairs; Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values; Founding Director, Center for the Study of Race and Democracy

Jeremi Suri, Ph.D, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs; Professor of History and Public Affair

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Dr. Peniel E. Joseph is the inaugural associate dean of the Office of Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI). He holds a joint professorship appointment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs as the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values, and in History at the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. As a professor at Tufts University, he founded the first Center to promote engaged scholarship on race and democracy’s impact on global citizens. He received a B.A. from SUNY at Stony Brook and a Ph.D. from Temple University. Dr. Joseph’s work has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others. Dr. Joseph has commentated on National Public Radio, The Colbert Report, PBS, and MSNBC, and has authored several award-winning books. His acclaimed book, The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X. and Martin Luther King Jr. was released in March, 2020.