The 2024 Plummer Lecturer will be Adia Wingfield. Dr. Wingfield is the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts & Sciences, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, and a Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. A reception along with a book sale and signing will follow the lecture. Information about Dr. Wingfield’s book can be found here: Gray Areas: How the Way We Work Maintains Racial Inequality and How We Can Change It.
The Hellen Ingram Plummer Lecture is the College of Arts and Sciences’ annual endowed lecture, featuring noted scholars, scientists, artists and performers who have made important contributions to their fields of achievement and to society at large. The Plummer Lecture was endowed in 1999 in honor of the late Atlanta arts patron. Hellen Ingram Plummer was a strong supporter of the arts in Atlanta for decades. The mother of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James I. Merrill and the former wife of Merrill Lynch founder Charles E. Merrill, Mrs. Plummer counted among her friends such artistic greats as George Gershwin, Charlie Chaplin, Katherine Hepburn and Gloria Swanson.
