Friday, November 19, 2010 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM EST
Virginia Commonwealth University
Second Annual Crenshaw Lecture
Date and Time Friday, November 19, 2010Noon - 1:00 pm
Location The Scott House - 909 West Franklin Street, Monroe Park Campus
Sponsor(s) Humanities & Sciences:
Speaker Cynthia A. Kierner, Professor of History, George Mason University
Audience All
Description A specialist in the fields of early America, women and gender, and early southern history, Dr. Kierner is the author or editor of six books including Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jeffersons America (2004). An OAH Distinguished Lecturer and past president of the Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH), Kierner has received support from the American Historical Association, the Virginia Historical Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her lecture will be drawn from her current major projects, a biography titled A Perfect Temper: The Life and Times of Martha Jefferson Randolph to be published in 2011 by the University of North Carolina Press.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. ContactInformation McDaniel, Shirley R. 8048270867 srmcdani@vcu.edu SpecialNeeds McDaniel, Shirley R. 8048270867 srmcdani@vcu.edu
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Sponsored by Humanities & Sciences.