Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/26/2021
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Categories
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation started out as Anna Malaika Tubbs’ PhD dissertation in sociology for Cambridge University and ended up as a critically acclaimed and popular publication with Macmillan Publishers.
Writing for broader audiences not only opens doors for academics as writers; making scholarly work more accessible can also open doors for those who are not usually included in academic conversations. In this workshop, Anna will walk participants through conceptualizing their dissertations to reach a much broader audience than traditional scholarly monographs.
This one-hour workshop will cover:
- Choosing and refining a topic with broad appeal
- Making the material (particularly theory) accessible to a wide audience
- Finding a publisher
- Promoting the book
- Navigating the relationship between the book and your dissertation
- Being a scholar in the public eye
Please RSVP for the workshop by registering via Zoom! If you have any accessibility needs for this event, please email us at publicslab@gc.cuny.edu.
Anna Malaika Tubbs is the author of the critically acclaimed book The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University with a BA in Anthropology, Anna earned her MA in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies and her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Cambridge as a Bill and Melinda Gates Cambridge Scholar. She is also an educator and DEI consultant. She lives with her husband, Michael Tubbs, and their son Michael Malakai.
