Leading researcher on health and social inequities to speak at John Martinson Honors College

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —

Medical anthropologist Seth Holmes, most notable for authoring the powerful and culturally impactful book “Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States,” will visit the Purdue University campus for the sixth annual Aronson Family Science and Society Lecture.

Holmes will headline his campus visit with the keynote lecture “How Social Inequity Comes to Be Treated as Natural” at 5:30 p.m. ET on March 2 in Honors College and Residences North, Honors Hall.

More information can be read on the John Martinson Honors College website.

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Media contact: Amy Patterson Neubert, apatterson@purdue.edu

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