Dr. Jane Landers, associate professor of history and leading historian on black society, will be the featured speaker at Campbell University’s annual Anne T. Moore Humanities Lecture, Thursday, March 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Lynch Auditorium of the Lundy-Fetterman School of Business. Admission is free and open to the public.Landers is the author and editor of numerous works, including “Black Society in Spanish Florida,” “Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas” and “Colonial Plantations and Economy in Florida.” She has also published articles in “The American Historical Review,” “Slavery and Abolition,” “The Americas,” and many other history journals. She is a past president of the Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction and is on the International Advisory Board of the Harriet Tubman Center for Research. Landers also serves on the editorial boards for “The Americas,” “Slavery & Abolition,” “Colonial Latin American Historical Review” and “History Compass Journal” and has consulted on a variety of archaeological projects, documentary films and museum exhibits. Since 2003 she has directed a collaborative research grant with partners in Brazil and Canada to digitize black church records from the slave era in Cuba and Brazil. She served as national director of the History Teaching Alliance during the 1990s and regularly participates in outreach to K-12 teachers and in public history programs.Established in 1988, the Anne T. Moore Humanities Lecture is made possible through the generosity of Dr. Anne T. Moore, professor emerita of history at Campbell University. For more information, contact Dr. Lloyd Johnson, associate professor of history and director of Historical Studies, at (910) 893-1489 or (800) 334-4111, ext. 1489.Photo Copy: Dr. Jane Landers, associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University, will speak at Campbell’s Barden Forum.
Vanderbilt historian to be Moore lecturer