Distinguished Faculty
Lecture Series
Created in 2004, the Brandeis Women’s and Gender Studies Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series features two presentations each year by Brandeis professors who are internationally recognized scholars of women’s and gender studies.
Past Presentations
Dian Fox: "Hercules and the Half-Blood Prince: Staging Masculinity and Nationalism in Early Modern Spain"
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Mary Baine Campbell: "Gender, Colonialism and the Queerness of Dreams: 17th-Century Oneirics"
November 13, 2008
Watch Professor Campbell's lecture
Susan S. Lanser: "The Sexuality of History"
March 6, 2008
Erica Harth: “From the Archives to Pulp Fiction: A Scholar Learns About Writing”
November 8, 2007
Karen V. Hansen: “Scandinavian Landtaking on a Dakota Reservation: A Gendered Mosaic”
March 27, 2007
James Mandrell: “Gender and Food in Nineteenth-Century Spain”
November 16, 2006
Anita Hill: “All the President’s Women: Gender and the Judiciary”
February 8, 2006
Marion Smiley: “Dependence, Autonomy, and the Denial of Citizenship”
October 19, 2005
Janet Zollinger Giele: “Educated Women as Agents of Change in Their Own Lives”
February 8, 2005
Bernadette J. Brooten: “Slavery’s Long Shadow Over the Lives of Girls and Women”
September 8, 2004
Jacqueline Jones: “The Home Front as Battle Front: Bringing Ordinary Women into the History of the American Civil War”
April 20, 2004
Joyce Antler: “‘Firebrand’: The Story of Pauli Murray, an Activist in Academe”
February 11, 2004