Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Edda Fields-Black

Wed, September 30, 2026 4:00 PM - Wed, September 30, 2026 5:30 PM at Room 303, International Center

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About the Speaker

Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, teaches history at Carnegie Mellon University and serves as Director of the Dietrich College Humanities Center.  She has written extensively about the transnational history of West African rice farmers including in such works as Deep Roots:  Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora.  She was a co-editor of Rice:  Global Networks and New Histories, which was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, Fields-Black consulted for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture's permanent exhibit, "Rice Fields in the Low Country of South Carolina."  She is the executive producer and librettist of "Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked:  Requiem for Rice," a widely performed original contemporary classical work by celebrated composer John Wineglass.  

 Eye on Africa co-sponsored by African Studies Center, The Graduate School, and MSU Department of History.