Distinguished
Visitors Talk by Celeste Winston,
Assistant Professor of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University

Talk on Monday, March 4 at
4:30pm in Chase Auditorium (tea at 4:15pm)

“Maroon
Geographies and Abolition Afterlives”

Abstract: 
Celeste
Winston's research explores spatially interconnected struggles around structural
racial, economic, and gender violence. Her work aims to generate evidence of
and for more livable and equitable geographies. She uses critical qualitative
and mapping methods—often in collaboration with community organizations and
leaders. She received a PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences in 2019 from
the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Her new book How
to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World beyond Policing (Duke
University Press, 2023) explores marronage—the practice of flight from and placemaking
beyond slavery—as a guide to police abolition.

Celeste Winston
is a faculty affiliate in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies program at
Temple.

Contact:
lreckson [at] haverford.edu

Organized by
Lindsay Reckson, Associate Professor and Chair of English, Haverford College.
Sponsored by the Department of English, the Distinguished Visitors Program, and
the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities.