Noted Legal Historian to Speak at Saint Leo University

From Saint Leo University: Saint Leo University’s School of Arts and Sciences will present guest speaker Shana L. Haines at the university’s Women’s History Month celebration from 5 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 23, at the Newport News Education Office. The community is welcome to this free event.

Haines will discuss “How to Live Free in This Black Body: African American Women Negotiating Citizenship from Jim Crow to Black Lives Matter.” She is an assistant professor of English at Tidewater Community College in Portsmouth, VA, and is a Ph.D student in American studies at the College of William & Mary focusing on race, law, and literature. She has her juris doctor degree from Boston University School of Law and her master’s in British and American literature from Hunter College.

The events will be as follows:

• 5 p.m. – Poster session featuring significant women sociologists and psychologists
• 5:30 p.m. – Alpha Kappa Delta (International Honor Society of Sociology) induction ceremony
• 6 p.m. – Haines’ presentation

Haines’ talk will draw from many of her research interests, including American legal history, Southern literature and culture; women’s literature; African-American history, citizenship, and performance; African-American citizenship and visual culture’ and the long Civil Rights Movement.

The Women’s History Month celebration will be in Room 112 at the Newport News Education Office, One BayPort Way, Room 112, Newport News, VA 23606.

The celebration also can be accessed via Video Teaching and Teleconferencing (VTT), at other Saint Leo locations including:

• South Hampton Roads Education Center in Virginia Beach, 1481 D. St., Building 3016, Room 203, JEB Little Creek-Fort Story. Virginia Beach, VA 23459;
• Fort Eustis Education Office, 1500 Madison Ave., U.S. Army Education Center, Fort Eustis, VA 23604;

• Chesapeake Education Office, 1434 Crossways Blvd., Suite 175, Chesapeake, VA 23320
• Marietta Education Center, 1395 S. Marietta Parkway, Building 300, Suite 104, Marietta, GA 30067;
• Morrow Education Center, 1590 Adamson Parkway, Suite 120, Morrow, GA 30260; and
• University Campus, TECO Hall, School of Business Building, 33701 State Road 52, St. Leo, FL 33574.

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