The Hamilton Lugar School’s speaker series on Race, Gender & Power in Global Affairs addresses issues of systemic exclusion that have an outsized and pervasive impact on the development of U.S. foreign policy and the fields of international and area studies.
The HLS Speaker Series on Race, Gender, and Power in Global Affairs, https://hls.indiana.edu/gethls/speaker-series/, will feature Prof. Meera Deo on Dec. 8. Prof. Deo’s topic will be Gender, Leadership and Global Affairs, focusing on gendered stereotypes of leadership and how they impact careers, along with constructive strategies on how to address and overcome these barriers. Prof. Deo (http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/news/9297) is American Bar Foundation (ABF) 2020-21 William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law, the Director of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE), a Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and a visiting professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law. She is also the author of Unequal Profession, which focuses on the barriers women of color face as law professors and outlines individual strategies and structural solutions to these challenges.