Anthropologist Carol Stack Will Speak March 6 & 7
For release: Mar. 3, 2003
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

Anthropologist and educator Dr. Carol Stack will visit The University of Memphis this week for a series of lectures on gender, race, ethnicity and economic hardship. All her talks are free and open to the public.

Stack will explore "Coming of Age at Minimum Wage" at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 6, in Manning Hall Room 201. The talk, part of the Charles H. McNutt Speaker Series, will examine Stack's recent ethnographic research among urban adolescents and their efforts to respond to limited circumstances.

She will discuss her award-winning book, Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South, at 7 p.m. Friday, March 7, in Johnson Hall Room 110. The book chronicles the reverse migration of African-Americans from rust belt cities to the South, where they have family ties. Call to Home won the Victor Turner Award form the Society for Humanistic Anthropology.

Stack is a professor of education and women's studies at the University of California at Berkeley. She uses an anthropological perspective to conduct research on urban youth, migration, rural and urban families, service-sector employment, and other facets of the social context of education.

Stack has served as chair of the women's studies program and chancellor's assistant on the status of women at Berkeley. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of Stanford University's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and a Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation.

For more information, contact Jane Henrici at jhenrici@memphis.edu or 901-678-5472, or call the Department of Anthropology at 901-678-2080.

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