University of Kentucky's 50th annual Geography in the Bluegrass Day Lecture

An event for UK geography students and alumni.

Prof Katherine McKittrick is our 50th Geography in the Bluegrass Day Speaker. Prof McKittrick is Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen's University. She researches in the areas of Black studies, anti-colonial studies, and critical-creative methodologies. She authored Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle, edited Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis, and co-edited, with Clyde Woods, Black Geographies and the Politics of Place. Her most recent monograph, Dear Science and Other Stories is an exploration of Black methodologies. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.