2022 Thornbrough Lecture Series
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Oct 6, 2022 7pm - 9pm
Location
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Details
This year’s lecture, “For Whose Protection?: Black Women and Confinement in the late-19th Century” will be given by Dr. Charlene J. Fletcher. The Thornbrough Lecture is an annual series organized by the Indiana Association of Historians (IAH). This year’s lecture is co-sponsored by the IAH and the Indiana Historical Society.
Dr. Charlene J. Fletcher is an affiliate faculty member in the Africana Studies Program at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) and the Curatorial Director at Conner Prairie. Most recently, Charlene served as the ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Research Associate at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. She holds a Ph.D. in History specializing in 19th century United States and African American history and gender studies.