• The Center on Race, Crime and Justice welcomed it's first visiting scholar, Dr. Toni Irving, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame during the Spring 2007semester. Her research examines the failure to prosecute sexual assault cases in Philadelphia, P.A. particularly involving African American women and girl victims. Dr. Irving presented her work in a talk entitled " Recovering Bodies of Evidence: Black Woman, Sexual Assault and Citizenship" on May 6th, 2007.