The first of the Hall’s ‘in conversation’ series, Professor Wes Williams talked to Professor Barbara D. Savage about Professor Merze Tate and Black Women’s Intellectual History. This event was hosted by the Principal of St Edmund Hall, Professor Katherine J. Willis.

Professor Barbara D. Savage is a scholar of twentieth century African American history with a focus on political and intellectual history, religious history, and women’s history.

She is currently working on a biography of Merze Tate, a pioneering black woman diplomatic historian and faculty member at Howard University from 1942-1977.