This week we welcome guest speaker Dr. Larycia Hawkins.

Larycia Hawkins is the Abd el-Kader Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and a lecturer at the University of Virginia where she is a political scientist, public speaker, and embodied solidarity activist. Dr. Hawkins’s research and scholarship regards intersectionality of sociopolitical movements, economic and social justice, and the confluence of race, religion, and politics, particularly how black cultural and religious narratives and rhetoric influence political agendas. Prior to coming to the University, Hawkins was an associate professor, and founder and director of the Peace & Conflict Studies Certificate Program at Wheaton College.