DURHAM, N.H. -- Jacqueline Jones Royster, dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will deliver the 2017 John T. Holden Lecture “An Ecosystem for 21st Century Global Leadership" on Sept 28, 2017, at 12:40 p.m. at the University of New Hampshire in Hamilton Smith Hall. The talk is free and open to the public.

“We are honored to host Dr. Jackie Royster at UNH,” said Heidi Bostic, dean of the UNH College of Liberal Arts. “She is a transformational leader at Georgia Tech – an expert innovator who understands the crucial importance of interdisciplinarity and the liberal arts as we face 21st century grand challenges. Her work on global citizenship and leadership is particularly timely.”

A leading scholar of rhetoric, literacy and women’s studies, Royster has published six books and two textbook series, including her 2000 book, “Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change among African American Women,” which won the Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize from the Modern Language Association. Her research focuses at the intersections of the history of rhetoric, feminist studies and cultural studies with a primary interest in the connections between human and civil rights.

The John T. Holden Memorial Fund in the College of Liberal Arts is dedicated to bringing signal scholars in the social sciences to UNH. 

The University of New Hampshire is a flagship research university that inspires innovation and transforms lives in our state, nation and world. More than 16,000 students from all 50 states and 71 countries engage with an award-winning faculty in top ranked programs in business, engineering, law, liberal arts and the sciences across more than 200 programs of study. UNH’s research portfolio includes partnerships with NASA, NOAA, NSF and NIH, receiving more than $100 million in competitive external funding every year to further explore and define the frontiers of land, sea and space. 

For more information, visit cola.unh.edu/holden-2017.