Scholars to lead roundtable on "Feminism, Religion, and Civil Rights" Feb. 29

Date: Feb. 29, 2008
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: Brown-Alley Room

Sara M. Evans, a leading scholar of U.S. women’s history, and Riv-Ellen Prell, a prominent anthropologist who studies American Jewish culture, will lead a roundtable discussion on “Feminism, Religion, and Civil Rights.” The discussion will take place on Friday, February 29th at 3 p.m. in the Brown-Alley Room.  All interested students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend. The discussion will be moderated by Elaine Tyler May, the 2008 Freeman Professor of History at the University of Richmond.  

Evans is the Regents Professor of History at the University of Minnesota.  Her work focuses on the historical agency of ordinary women, especially in the feminist movement and the civil rights movement. She is the author of Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End, Born for Liberty: A History of American Women, and Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left.  

Prell is a professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota.  She is the editor of Women Remaking American Judaism and author of Fighting to Become Americans: Jews, Gender, and the Anxiety of Assimilation and Prayer and Community: The Havurah in American Judaism, winner of the 1990 National Jewish Book Award for contemporary Jewish life.  Prell is currently at work on a book about the creation of an American Jewish youth culture post-World War II.

The event is co-sponsored by the Department of History and the WILL program.  For more information, please contact Nicole Sackley or Eric Yellin.

Posted February 26, 2008