Virginia Women and Politics: The Strange Case of Martha Jefferson Randolph

Lecture by Cynthia Kierner

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, 2010
Noon - 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. 
 
Contact
Information   McDaniel, Shirley R. 
8048270867 
srmcdani@vcu.edu
 
Special
Needs   McDaniel, Shirley R. 
8048270867 
srmcdani@vcu.edu



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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