Renowned scholar, activist and author Angela Davis, Ph.D., comes to UHD on Thursday, April 3, as the new Center for Social Inquiry and Transformation’s (CSIT) 2025 Scholar in Residence. She will meet with students over lunch at 11:30 a.m. in A300, and, at 5:30 p.m., she will give CSIT’s inaugural lecture: “A Moderated Discussion with Professor Angela Davis” in the Robinson Auditorium.
The discussion is free and open to the public. Reservations are required. To RSVP, please visit uhd.edu/csit. A book signing and reception follow the discussion.
Through her activism and scholarship over many decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world. In recent years, a persistent theme of her work has been the range of social problems associated with incarceration.
Professor Davis’ teaching career has taken her to San Francisco State University, Mills College and UC Berkeley. She also has taught at UCLA, Vassar, Syracuse University, the Claremont Colleges and Stanford University. Mostly recently, she spent 15 years at the University of California Santa Cruz where she is now Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness, an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program.
She is the author of nine books and has lectured throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and South America. Her recent books include “Abolition Democracy” and “Are Prisons Obsolete?” about the abolition of the prison industrial complex; a new edition of “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” and a collection of essays entitled “The Meaning of Freedom.” Her most recent book of essays is called “Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement” (2016).
Professor Davis is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex. Internationally, she is affiliated with Sisters Inside, an abolitionist organization based in Queensland, Australia, that works in solidarity with women in prison.
CSIT is truly offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hear Dr. Davis speak. It’s all a part of CSIT’s mission is to equip scholars and students with the tools to prepare for the future, integrating academic expertise, community knowledge, and policy development to develop innovative, real-world solutions that support sustainable social progress.