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An Evening with Tressie McMillan Cottom

On Thursday, April 28, 2022, MIT Libraries presented an evening with cultural critic, celebrated sociologist, and award-winning writer Tressie McMillan Cottom, in conversation with Sandy Alexandre, Associate Professor of Literature at MIT. The program featured an introduction by Kelcey Gibbons, PhD student, Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS). Tressie McMillan Cottom explores the everyday culture of big ideas like racism, sexism, inequality, and oppression by giving us the language to live better lives. Her far-ranging intellectual interests include books, articles, magazine profiles, and opinion-editorials, but it is her essays that routinely shape the discourse – part revolutionary pamphlet, part poetic chapbook, part sociological analysis, and part call-to-arms. Her 2019 collection of essays, Thick, was a National Book Award finalist. Her first book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy questioned the fundamental narrative of American education policy. Cottom is a professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, a 2020 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and New York Times contributing opinion writer. She is a member of the inaugural external advisory committee for the MIT Libraries’ Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship (CREOS). The MIT Libraries are an engine for creating, sharing, and safeguarding knowledge at the Institute and beyond. The Libraries work to improve the world’s collective knowledge by equipping current and future scholars with the best content and the skills to use it, whether examining medieval manuscripts or flying drones to collect data. We make MIT research — from the LIGO detection of gravitational waves, to the design of humanoid robots, to advances in drug delivery — openly accessible to the world. Our new research initiative CREOS tackles the big challenges in information science and scholarly communication, ranging from accessibility and inclusion in library systems to economic models for equitable and open scholarship. Learn more at https://libraries.mit.edu