PennGSEVideoLab's video: Visiting Faculty Schoiars of Color - Cynthia B Dillard

For this event, Dr. Dillard's talk is entitled, "And We Shall Not Be Moved: The Necessity of Loving and Learning From Africa to America and Back Again " Each year since 2008, a number of scholars of color from all over the country are invited to Penn GSE to give lectures and share their research with faculty and students as part of the Visiting Faculty Scholars of Color series. The series also provides an opportunity for doctoral student socialization and learning. These talks are followed up with a lunch and conversation between students and the speaker about his/her work. Dr. Dillard’s major research interests include critical multicultural education, spirituality in teaching and learning, epistemological concerns in research and African/African-American feminist studies. Her research has focused in Ghana, West Africa, where she established a preschool and an elementary school. Two of her books, On spiritual strivings: Transforming an African American woman’s academic life (SUNY Press, 2006) and Learning to (re)member the things we’ve learned to forget: Endarkened feminisms, spirituality and the sacred nature of research (Peter Lang, 2012) have been selected as Critics’ Choice Book Award winners by the American Educational Studies Association (AESA). Lightfeet by Podington Bear is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.