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.
- Joyce Antler: “‘Firebrand’: The Story of Pauli Murray, an Activist in Academe”
February 11, 2004
- Jacqueline Jones: “The Home Front as Battle Front: Bringing Ordinary Women into the History of the American Civil War”
April 20, 2004
- Bernadette J. Brooten: “Slavery’s Long Shadow Over the Lives of Girls and Women”
September 8, 2004
- Janet Zollinger Giele: “Educated Women as Agents of Change in Their Own Lives”
February 8, 2005
- Marion Smiley: “Dependence, Autonomy, and the Denial of Citizenship”
October 19, 2005
- Anita Hill: “All the President’s Women: Gender and the Judiciary”
February 8, 2006
- James Mandrell: “Gender and Food in Nineteenth-Century Spain”
November 16, 2006
- Karen V. Hansen: “Scandinavian Landtaking on a Dakota Reservation: A Gendered Mosaic”
March 27, 2007
- Erica Harth: “From the Archives to Pulp Fiction: A Scholar Learns About Writing”
November 8, 2007
- Susan S. Lanser: "The Sexuality of History"
March 6, 2008