Celeste-Marie Bernier: A Presentation on Anna Murray Douglass
April 6 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Celeste-Marie Bernier, author of the forthcoming “Douglass Family Lives: The Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass Family Collected Works and Biography: Book 1-6” and “The Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass Family Selected Writings: A Reader,” will be giving a presentation on Anna Murray Douglass at the Museum of Rural Life in Denton on April 6th from 5pm – 6pm.
Professor Celeste-Marie Bernier is Chair of United States and Atlantic Studies at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She is the author, editor, and curator of over 85 books, exhibitions, essays, and digital educational resources. Her forthcoming books include “Douglass Family Lives: The Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass Family Collected Works and Biography: Book 1-6”, “The Anna Murray and Frederick Douglass Family Selected Writings: A Reader,” and “Battleground: African American Art (1985-2015)”. She is the recipient of a UK Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship Award for her current project, “Sacrifice is Survival: Black Families Fighting for Freedom in the USA and Canada (1732-1936)”. She is currently a Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University.
