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DURHAM, N.H. -- Jacqueline Jones Royster, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will deliver the 2017 John T. Holden Lecture 鈥淎n Ecosystem for 21st Century Global Leadership" on Sept 28, 2017, at 12:40 p.m. at the 91制片厂 in Hamilton Smith Hall. The talk is free and open to the public.

鈥淲e are honored to host Dr. Jackie Royster at 91制片厂,鈥� said Heidi Bostic, dean of the 91制片厂 College of Liberal Arts. 鈥淪he is a transformational leader at Georgia Tech 鈥� an expert innovator who understands the crucial importance of interdisciplinarity and the liberal arts as we face 21st century grand challenges. Her work on global citizenship and leadership is particularly timely.鈥�

A leading scholar of rhetoric, literacy and women鈥檚 studies, Royster has published six books and two textbook series, including her 2000 book, 鈥淭races of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change among African American Women,鈥� which won the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize from the Modern Language Association. Her research focuses at the intersections of the history of rhetoric, feminist studies and cultural studies with a primary interest in the connections between human and civil rights.

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