TALKS | writing workshops

Join a group writing workshop, particularly helpful for doctoral students and pre-tenure faculty, but also helpful for senior faculty working on a new book project. 

Black women around the world have written about tea as a tool for health and wellness. This work surveys over 300 memoirs to map a history of traditions from herbal senna and sassafras to pekoe in Kenya and Virginia. Dr. Evans, a professor of Black women's intellectual history, maps stories of infusions through Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. "Black Tea History" argues for the value of teaching and institutionalizing lessons about historical wellness--especially in high-stress professions like higher education. Historical narratives offer lessons for creating internal and external green space. Life writing helps readers identify how tea can support mental, physical, spiritual, and social strategies proven to help manage stress. This work also emphasizes the need for critical analysis of historical wellness in order to not perpetuate harmful myths embedded in past tea traditions and to affirm advocacy for fair political and economic practices.