When   Thursday, October 15, 2009   Time   4:00 PM - 5:30 PM  
Where   Mccormick Tribune 1870 Campus Dr   map it
Audience   - Faculty/Staff - Student - Public
Contact   Paula Blaskovits   847-467-4045  
Group   History Department
More Info   http://www.history.northwestern.edu/

RECEPTION TO FOLLOW EVENT

The Robert Wiebe Memorial Lectureship, endowed by generous donors, brings to Northwestern a distinguished historian chosen by undergraduate majors in history each year. It honors the memory of Professor Robert H. Wiebe (1930-2000), who taught at Northwestern from 1960 until 1997 shortly before his death. In addition to being a pathbreaking scholar, Wiebe was deeply devoted to all aspects of undergraduate education.

Christine Stansell is a leading historian of American women, with interests in women's and gender history, antebellum U.S. social and political history, American cultural history, and how societies reconstruct themselves after catastrophes. After graduating from Princeton University (1971), she earned a Ph.D. in American Studies at Yale University (1979) and joined the Princeton History Department in 1982. She is currently teaching at the University of Chicago.

Her first book, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York 1789-1860 (1986), explored the streets, tenements, dance halls, and sweatshops of antebellum New York City to reveal the central role working-class women played in the city's history. At the same time she worked in the new field of the history of sexuality, collaborating with Ann Snitow and Sharon Thompson to publish the collection Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (1983). Her most recent book, American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century (2000), weaves together the lives of the influential group of writers, artists, and political radicals who lived in Greenwich Village in the years between 1890 and 1920 to deliver a wide-ranging account of left-wing politics, avant-garde art, intimate relationships, and American social history at the opening of the 20th century. Most recently, she published a piece on the fifteenth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda for The New Republic.

Professor Stansell had been the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1993-94), a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey (1990-91), and the Mary Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2006-07).