2025 ZORA NEALE HURSTON LECTURE -March 4, 2025

Speaker : MIGNON R. MOORE, Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Sociology at Barnard College and Columbia University

Lecture Title - “To Find The Life I Want To Live:”  Black Sexual Minority Women In The Mid-Twentieth Century Struggle For Sexual Autonomy And Economic Freedom"

Location: Malcolm X and Betty Shabazz Memorial Education Center

Presented in Collaboration: African American & African Diaspora Studies Department - Columbia University (AAADS); Institute for Research in African-American Studies - Columbia University (IRAAS); Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy - Columbia University  (ISERP)

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Mignon R. Moore is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Sociology at Barnard College and Columbia University. She is an alumna of Columbia College (’92) and received the PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago. Dr. Moore’s areas of expertise include LGBTQ populations, qualitative research methods, intersections of race and gender, family processes, and aging, and she has received grants to support her work from the National Institutes of Health, the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. She is finishing a new book on the development of sexual community for Black lesbian women titled In the Shadow of Sexuality: Social Histories and the Development of Community among Black Sexual Minority Women, 1950-1979, which will be published by the University of California Press.

Over the past 27 years, Dr. Moore has had an active research career combined with sustained mentoring of LGBTQ scholars and scholars of color. Before arriving at Barnard she was co-director of the NIH Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research at the UCLA School of Medicine, where she trained new PhD and MD scientists in qualitative study design and journal writing. Professor Moore was the 2021 President of Sociologists for Women in Society and the 2023 Vice President of the American Sociological Association.