An Evening with Dan-El Padilla Peralta

Padilla is a professor at Princeton University where he specializes in classics, African American studies, Latino studies and Latin America. He came to the United States with his family from the Dominican Republic in 1989 and grew up in New York. 

He has written several books including his memoir “Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League.” Padilla co-founded Racing the Classics, a two-day conference focused on using and developing theories of race and ethnicity within their field, which recently received $1 million in funding from the Mellon Foundation. He currently sits on the board of the RaceB4Race collective and is the volume co-editor for “The Cambridge History of the African Diaspora.” 

This event is free and open to the public. For more information and to RSVP, visit: thecollege.asu.edu/marshall. 

The Johnathan and Maxine Marshall Distinguished Lecture Series brings to ASU nationally known scholars concerned with promoting culture through the humanities and a better understanding of the problem of democracy. This annual free public lecture is funded with an endowed gift from Johnathan and Maxine Marshall.