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TVIH TALK: People Of The Various Diasporas,10AM

When:
Wednesday, May 9, 2018, 10:00 AM until 11:30 AM
Where:
TVIH Center
6061 Stevens Forest Road
Columbia, MD  21045

4433679043
Additional Info:
Event Contact(s):
JihJen Joy Cheung
Category:
Education
Registration is required
Payment In Full In Advance Only
Capacity:
30
Available Slots:
15
No Fee
No Fee
TVIH TALK is a program that allows our members to get to know one another by learning about their life stories, careers, and community volunteer work.

TVIH member, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Ph.D., is University Professor Emerita, Morgan State University. She was Professor of History, teaching African Diaspora History and Women's History for forty years. Terborg-Penn was Director of the African Diaspora History Undergraduate program for twelve years, before developing the Ph.D. in History in 1978, first Ph.D. Program at Morgan State University.  

A graduate of Queens College, City University of New York, Roslyn earned a BA in History, and continued her education at George Washington University, earning a MA degree in U.S. History and Diplomatic History.  While teaching at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Rosalyn earned her Ph.D. in U.S. and African Diaspora History from Howard University. Her dissertation was entitled, "African Americans in the Struggle for Woman Suffrage, 1850 to 1920." One of her three books is African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, which won the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award in 1978 for the Best Book Published about African American women. 

Rosalyn has lived in Columbia, Maryland since 1969, when she began teaching at Morgan State U. She also taught U.S. History at Howard Community College when it first opened in 1970. 

Rosalyn retired from teaching at Morgan in 2009; but continues to lecture and write about women of the African Diaspora.  

Fee: Free

All registrations due by May 7, 2018.