You are invited to a very
momentous occasion.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
University of South
Carolina
- McKissick Museum
Friday, April 9, 2010
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Brookland Baptist Church
Banquet Hall
On
April 8 and 9, the African American Studies Program
will present a symposium entitled, “A Life
of the Mind: Honoring the Leadership, Scholarship,
and Service of Andrew Billingsley, Ph.D.” Dr.
Billingsley is a Professor of Sociology and African
American Studies, a Senior Scholar-In-Residence
at the Institute for Families in Society, and
a Carolina Trustee Professor.
Dr. Billingsley has held several
university administrative positions including,
Vice-President of Academic Affairs at Howard University
and President of Morgan State University in Baltimore.
Dr. Billingsley also served on the faculty at
the University of California, Berkeley, the University
of Maryland, and Spelman College. In addition,
Dr. Billingsley held a Fulbright Scholar Fellowship
in Ghana.
Dr. Billingsley is the author
of several books of sociology including the seminal
work Black
Families in White America; Climbing Jacob’s
Ladder: The Enduring Legacy of African American
Families; Children of the Storm; Mighty Like a
River: The Black Church and Social Reform; and
Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South
Carolina and His Families. Billingsley’s
research on Robert Smalls served as the impetus
for the African American Studies Program’s
annual Robert Smalls Lecture.
Panelists include the distinguished political
scientist Dr. Ronald Walters of
the University of Maryland and the noted sociologist
and civil rights activist Dr. Joyce Ladner. The
keynote luncheon address will be delivered by Dr.
Howard Dodson, a historian and the director
of the Schomburg Library, one of the world’s
largest African American research centers. Dodson
will be introduced by Dr. Cleveland Sellers, the
former director of African American Studies at
USC and the president of Voorhees College.
For additional information, please contact the
African American Studies Program at 803-777-7248.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Black Families in White America, Simon and Schuster, 1968
Yearning to Breathe Free:
Robert Smalls of South Carolina and his
Families, USC Press, 2007
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