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[PAST EVENT] Women's Studies/Africana Studies brownbag
October 28, 2011
12pm - 1pm
Location
Boswell Hall (formerly Morton Hall), Room 314100 Ukrop Way
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Professor Davis's talk is called "Hurricane Katrina Update - Six years later: Voices from unheard Mississippi women survivors and recovery."
Dr. Ophera Davis is a visiting professor at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. Her research focus is on Mississippi black middle-class women survivors of Hurricane Katrina and career counseling practices in multicultural populations. In 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, Ophera, a former resident of Mississippi, traveled to the Gulf Coast states to assist survivors with practical recovery efforts. During the visit, she initiated what has become a six-year ethnographical study of women survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Davis has published articles in journals including the Harvard Journal of African Studies and Public Policy. She is currently writing a manuscript to tell the stories of the Mississippi middle-class women survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
Dr. Ophera Davis is a visiting professor at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. Her research focus is on Mississippi black middle-class women survivors of Hurricane Katrina and career counseling practices in multicultural populations. In 2005, after Hurricane Katrina, Ophera, a former resident of Mississippi, traveled to the Gulf Coast states to assist survivors with practical recovery efforts. During the visit, she initiated what has become a six-year ethnographical study of women survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Davis has published articles in journals including the Harvard Journal of African Studies and Public Policy. She is currently writing a manuscript to tell the stories of the Mississippi middle-class women survivors of Hurricane Katrina.