Mary C. Waters (Harvard University) will deliver the 2016 Henry and Bryna David Lecture on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. Waters is a former chair of the Russell Sage Foundation’s board of trustees, co-author of the RSF book Inheriting the City, co-editor of the RSF books The New Race Question and Becoming New Yorkers, and a recipient of multiple research awards from the foundation.

In her address, Waters will discuss the war on crime and the war on immigrants in the U.S., focusing on how the growth of mass incarceration and of undocumented immigrants has been proceeding along parallel tracks since the 1970s. She will look at these two groups together, arguing that the U.S. has developed a new form of legal exclusion and discrimination.

The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to register.

The talk will also be livestreamed from the Henry and Bryna David Lecture website at the time of the event.