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University of Portland to host Mazzocco Lecture speaker William Chafe, Mon., Feb. 4 at 7:15 p.m.

Garaventa Center

Political Science

January 29, 2019

photo of William ChafeThe University of Portland will welcome William Chafe, author and emeritus professor of history at Duke University, on Monday, February 4 at 7:15 p.m. in Franz Hall Room 120. Chafe will discuss distributive justice and racism as a force in American society with his lecture, entitled “The Black Struggle for Freedom: What Black Protest Has Achieved, Yet How Much Remains to be Done.” The lecture is part of the Mazzocco Lecture series and is free and open to the public.

Chafe has long been focused on issues of gender and racial inequality. He has written thirteen books on a range of related topics and won multiple awards for his writing, including the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Other awards include the Sidney Hillman book award, and the Lillian Smith Award. He studied at Harvard University and Columbia University and received his Ph.D. from Columbia. Chafe also played many important roles during his time at Duke University, ranging from chair of the History Department, to Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education.

The Mazzocco Lecture is an annual lecture held in honor of William James Mazzocco, who graduated from University of Portland with an economics degree in 1937. Mazzocco was known for his beliefs in distributive justice (an equitable distribution of resources), and the annual Mazzocco lecture reflects these values. 

For more information, please contact Sarah Nuxoll, Garaventa Center, at 503.943.7702 or garaventa@up.edu, or William Curtis, political science, at curtisw@up.edu.