University of South Alabama Press Release

University of South Alabama, Office of Public Relations

March 23, 2007
Contact: Alice Jackson, (251) 460-6639

Internationally Recognized Author and Lecturer to Speak at 14th Annual USA Research Forum

USA faculty and graduate students will showcase their research, scholarly and creative projects as well as host a guest speaker during the 14th Annual USA Research Forum March 26-29 in the Student Center.

The poster and book display will be in Rooms 214-220 of the Student Center throughout the week.

Dr. Juanita Johnson-Bailey, a nationally and internationally recognized author and lecturer on race and gender in both education and the workplace, will speak on “Connecting the Dots: How Race Impacts the Macro and Micro Levels of the University Community” at 1:00 p.m., March 28, in the Student Center Ballroom. Johnson-Bailey is a University of Georgia professor in the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration and Policy, and the Women’s Studies Program. Her book, “Sistahs in College: Making a Way Out of No Way,” (2001, Krieger Press) received the Phillip E. Frandon Award for Literature in Continuing Higher Education. She is also co-editor of “Flat-footed Truths: Telling Black Women’s Lives,” (1998, Henry Holt) a collection of constructed narratives.

Dr. Juanita Johnson-Bailey

She is currently writing a series of essays about her experiences as a professor at a Research 1 university, entitled “Where’s Our Authority in the Classroom: Women of Color & Knowledge Dissemination."

The USA Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award will be presented to Elizabeth M. Jones for “Reading Renaissance: The Invisible Other as Modern Muse in the Works of John Millington Synge and Jean Toomer.” Jones received her masters of arts degree in August 2006.

Following Johnson-Bailey’s lecture, refreshments and discussions with research forum participants will be held at the forum displays, located across the hall from the Ballroom.

The forum display is a celebration of the extensive and diverse contributions of all the University’s disciplines. It gives the public and the University community an opportunity to talk with faculty from across the campus about their work and to look at the array of USA talent.