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Dates:September 23 - November 11, 2020
Meets:W from 11:00 AM to 12 N
Cost: $0.00

Sorry, we are no longer accepting registrations for this course. Please contact our office to find out if it will be rescheduled, or if alternative classes are available.

Please note: this course requires membership in 2020 Fall Odyssey Membership

Join Odyssey on Zoom each Wednesday morning at 11:00 for presentations on multiple topics. Instructors include a variety of USA faculty presenting on such topics as women's roles during and after World War II, American cultural, societal, and political changes during the Vietnam era, social and medical effects pandemics. There will also be a graduate student who will be presenting on the history of St. Francis United Methodist Church, paralleling its life with the life and growth of Mobile.

Zoom invitations will be sent our each week to members enrolled in this course.

Fee: $0.00

Martha Brazy

A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Martha Jane Brazy joined the History Department faculty late last century. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century U.S. social history with an emphasis on the African-American history, slavery, the South and multicultural women's history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While at USA, Professor Brazy has taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses: both halves of the U.S. History survey, African-American Experiences, the Historical Roots of Contemporary Issues, the History of American Feminist Movements, African-American Women's History, and Slavery in the U.S. Graduate Seminars include Slavery in the U.S. as well as American Historiography. Her current research explores the life of the late African-American poet, social critic, and activist, June Jordan. Professor Brazy is also compiling a collection of slave women's narratives.

Frye Gaillard

Frye Gaillard, a Mobile native, is the University of South Alabama Writer in Residence. He also serves on the faculty of USA's Center for the Study of War and Memory. He has authored more than 25 books, including Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America, which won the 2005 Lillian Smith Award for best southern non-fiction. Other award-winning titles include If I Were a Carpenter: Twenty Years of Habitat for Humanity; The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina; Go South to Freedom; and Watermelon Wine: Remembering the Golden Years of Country Music. His book, A Hard Rain: America in the 1960s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility and Innocence Lost, is a 2018 release from NewSouth Books in Montgomery. His accomplishments also include two other books that have been adapted as documentary films by the Alabama Center for Public Television and Dragonfly Public Media. Of special interest to Odyssey, Dr. Gaillard coauthored with Marti Rosner, a children's book entitled Benjamin S. Turner: Alabama's First Black Senator and the Lost Opportunities of Reconstruction, on which he and Dr. Rosner will present on November 11.

Roma Hanks

Dr. Roma Hanks is Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work at the University of South Alabama. She also serves as Director, USA Programs in Gerontology; Academic/Research Director, USA Center for Generational Studies; and Co-Director of the Community Engagement Core of the Center of Excellence on Health Disparities.

Regina Kirkland


Marti Rosner

Date Day Time Location
09/23/2020Wednesday11 AM to 12 N
09/30/2020Wednesday11 AM to 12 N
10/07/2020Wednesday11 AM to 12 N
10/14/2020Wednesday11 AM to 12 N
10/21/2020Wednesday11 AM to 12 N
10/28/2020Wednesday11 AM to 12 N
11/04/2020Wednesday11 AM to 12 N
11/11/2020Wednesday11 AM to 12 N