Dr. Angel Adams Parham is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, a national leader in the classical education movement, and co-author of the recent The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature (2022). She is the cofounder and executive director of Nyansa Classical Community, which provides curricula and programming designed to connect with students from diverse backgrounds and invites them to take part in the Great Conversation, cultivate their moral imagination, and pursue truth, goodness, and beauty. As an advocate for the renewal of classical education, Angel has addressed teachers and school leaders through the Society for Classical Learning, the Classic Learning Test, and other organizations. She works in the area of historical sociology, engaging in research and writing which examine the past in order to better understand how to live well in the present and envision wisely for the future. This research focus is rooted in her interest in reconnecting sociology to its classical roots and animated by questions such as “What is a good society?”

Dr. Parham will be speaking about the legacy of the black intellectual tradition in America and how it has drawn inspiration from, and also contributed greatly to, the Christian intellectual tradition.

Please note that this event will be held at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center on UNC’s campus.