Dr. Kristalyn Shefveland, assistant professor of history at the University of Southern Indiana, will present “Racial Classification and the Eastern Shore: Records of Bastards Miscegenation, and Infanticide in Colonial Virginia,†based on her studies covering race in the Colonial South. The lecture will take place at 3 p.m. Friday, October 30, in Kleymeyer Hall (LA0101).
Shefveland will examine the indigenous intersections to the development of race in the Colonial South, through these examinations one will see the connections of racial classification as it emerged in Virginia and how Native people of the Eastern Shore encountered and processed those events. She will also discuss how communities existed throughout Eastern Shore of white, black and indigenous planters and laborers who lived, worked and had personal relationships with one another.
Shefveland will be the third speaker in the College of Liberal Arts Faculty Colloquia Series, individual public lectures featuring current faculty research.
For more information, contact Dr. Shannon Pritchard, assistant professor of art history, at 812-465-1023 or snpritchar@usi.edu.
