Vivyan Adair, assistant professor of women's studies and director of the ACCESS Project, will lead the Think Tank discussion on "Poverty and the Promise of Higher Education Today." Think Tank will take place at noon, Friday, April 11 in Kirner-Johnson room 221.
Adair came to Hamilton College in 1998. She earned a Ph.D. and master's from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research interests are studying representations of women on welfare, and analyzing the impact of welfare reform. Adair is co-director of the ACCESS Project, a pilot project that assists disadvantaged parents in Oneida, Madison and Herkimer Counties in obtaining a higher education. She is the author of From Good Ma to Welfare Queen, A Genealogy of the Poor Woman in American Literature, Photography and Culture, a study that explores literary, photographic and cultural representations of poor American women and offers a view of the interlocking systems of race, gender and class oppression (2000). Adair is also co-editor of Women, Poverty and the Promise of Education in America, which is forthcoming from Temple University Press.
