Please join the African and African Diaspora Studies department for an evening with Dr. LaCharles Ward, the Supervisory Museum Curator of Photography and Film and Director of the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Center for African American Media Arts at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Dr. Ward will discuss his academic and career trajectory to the curatorial field, his research in photography, and his work in digitizing the Johnson Publishing Company Archive. Students and the public will learn more about career opportunities in the museum field by hearing directly from this esteemed professional.

Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.

This event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute with support provided by the Sterling Clark Holloway Centennial Lectureship in Liberal Arts.