Values in Post-Katrina America - Valerie Grim, Peter Orazem and Steven Garasky

Date/Time:	Wednesday, 01 Mar 2006 at 7:00 pm
Location:	Sun Room, Memorial Union
Cost:	Free
Contact:
Phone:	515-294-9934
Channel:	Lecture Series
Categories:	Lectures
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Valerie Grim is African American and African Diaspora Studies Professor and Interim Chair at Indiana University, and was interim chair of the African American Studies Program here at Iowa State. She has done extensive research in the area of African American, rural communities. Peter F. Orazem is University Professor of Economics and Director of the Industrial Relations Program at Iowa State. Steven Garasky, Human Development and Family Studies expert on public policy, will moderate. Part of National Affairs Series.

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Valerie Grim
1984: B.A., History, Tougaloo College
1986: M.A., History, Iowa State University
1990: Ph.D., History. Iowa State University

Courses
Undergraduate
• The Black Family in Twentieth Century Rural America, 1900-present
• Black Social History, 1600s-1990s
• Afro-American History, part I (1620-1865)
• Afro-American History, part II (1865-present)
• Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, 1954-1970
• Survey of African American Culture
• Introduction to African American Literature

Graduate
• The Black Experience in America
• African American Studies Research and Pedagogy Methods
• Theoretical Issues in African American Studies
• Publishing, Exhibiting, and Teaching in African American Studies
• Introduction to African American Studies
• Pro-seminar in Historical and Cultural Studies in African American and African Diaspora Studies
• Pro-seminar in Visual, Material, and Performing Arts in African American and African Diaspora Studies

Research Areas
• African American History
• Agricultural History
• Black Rural Communities
• the Black Family