Presidential Lecture Series: Journalist and Educator Jelani Cobb
To all Faculty, Staff and Students,
Please join me on Monday, October 28, as we welcome Jelani Cobb, journalist, educator and speaker on race in America. Cobb will discuss "Microaggressions and the Pursuit of Equity." The lecture will take place at 7 p.m. in the Student Activities Center's Gelber Auditorium.
Cobb is a professor in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he has written an impactful series of articles about race, the police and injustice. He received the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism for his New Yorker columns, which include "The Anger in Ferguson," "Murders in Charleston" and "What We Talk About When We Talk About Reparations."
Cobb previously taught history and directed the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut, and is the recipient of Fulbright and Ford Foundation fellowships. His books include The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress (2010) and the collection The Devil & Dave Chappelle and Other Essays (2007).
In 2018, he was named a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Commentary "for combining masterful writing with a deep knowledge of history and a deft reporter’s touch to bring context and clarity to the issue of race at a time when respectful dialogue on the subject often gives way to finger-pointing and derision."
We are extremely fortunate to have Jelani Cobb share his perspective with our staff, faculty and students.
I encourage you to suggest questions for discussion. Please visit stonybrook.edu/presidentiallecture to submit your questions and to RSVP by October 24. Seating is limited.
Michael A. Bernstein
Professor of Business, Economics, and History
Interim President
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Office of the Chief Diversity Officer. If you need an accessibility-related accommodation, please call (631) 632-6320.