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“Caring
for Circumcised Women” Subject of Sojourner Truth
Lecture Series At Pomona College
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Dr. Nawal Nour, who received a 2003 MacArthur Foundation
“genius grant” for creating the country’s only center
focusing on both the physical and emotional needs of female
circumcision victims, will talk about “Caring for
Circumcised Women,” on Thursday, March 31, at 8 p.m., at
Pomona College.
The lecture, part of the Sojourner Truth Lecture Series, is
sponsored by the Claremont Colleges Intercollegiate
Department of Black Studies and will be held in the Bridges
Hall of Music (Little Bridges), 150 E. Fourth St.,
Claremont. There is no charge to attend.
Dr. Nour, a board certified obstetrician/gynecologist, is
the director of the Obstetric Resident Practice at the
Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
She is also the founder and director of the hospital’s
African Women's Health Practice, which provides appropriate
health and outreach programs to Boston’s African community.
This work has been covered by the Associated Press,
New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, O,
Essence magazine, and CNN Espanol.
An assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Nour
is researching the health and policy issues regarding female
genital cutting (FGC) locally and internationally. Committed
to the eradication of FGC, she travels throughout the
country conducting workshops to educate African refugees and
immigrants on the medical complications and legal issues
related to this practice. She has also spoken in numerous
academic and national conferences regarding the medical
management of women who have undergone this practice and
recently served on an FGC task force for the American
College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She served as the
primary author for Female Genital Cutting, Clinical
Management of Circumcised Women, published by ACOG. This
slide-lecture kit aims to educate
obstetricians-gynecologists on the medical management of
circumcised women in the United States and Canada.
Born in the Sudan and raised in Egypt and England, Dr. Nour
came to the United States to attend Brown University. She
received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School in
1994 and completed a chief residency in obstetrics and
gynecology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
in 1998. She received the Commonwealth Fund/Harvard
University Fellowship in Health Policy, and obtained her
Masters of Public Health (MPH) at Harvard School of Public
Health in 1999. She was subsequently awarded the H. Richard
Nesson Fellowship from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital for
her community outreach work.
The Sojourner Truth Lectureship, established in 1983, honors
the achievements and contributions of outstanding
African-American women in the United States. Conceived and
administered by faculty in the Intercollegiate Department of
Black Studies, the lectureship is sponsored by five of The
Claremont Colleges: Scripps, Pomona, Claremont McKenna,
Harvey Mudd, and Pitzer Colleges. Past recipients of the
Sojourner Truth Lectureship have included Maya Angelou,
Octavia Butler, Elizabeth Catlett, Samella Lewis, and Agnes
Moreland Jackson.
Established in 1969, the Intercollegiate Department of Black
Studies offers a rich program of multidisciplinary teaching
and scholarship to all students at The Claremont Colleges.
Its mission is to examine through various academic
disciplines the experiences of people of African heritage
worldwide.
For more information on this lecture, call the
Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies at (909)
607-3070.
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