Ohio University Women’s Center presents Dr. Michele Tracy Berger on “Keeping it in the Family: African American Mother and Daughter Discussions of Health, Young Womanhood and HIV Risk” on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m. at Walter 135.
Dr. Michele T. Berger
Berger is Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her books include Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS (Princeton University Press, 2004) and the co-edited collections Gaining Access: A Practical and Theoretical Guide for Qualitative Researchers (Altamira Press, 2003) and The Intersectional Approach: Transforming the Academy Through Race, Class and Gender (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). Her most recent book is Transforming Scholarship: Why Women’s and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and The World co-authored with Cheryl Radeloff (Routledge, 2014 2nd edition).
Her teaching and research interests include multiracial feminisms, qualitative methods, and HIV/AIDS activism. She was recently appointed the Associate Director of the Faculty Fellows Program at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Institute of the Arts and Humanities.
She is also a creative writer, creativity coach and conducts seminars on women, leadership and creativity. Since 2005, Berger has been a core instructor in the Public Executive Leadership Academy Program (PELA) through UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Government.
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