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Dr. Maxine Margolis will present "As Time Goes By: Changing Roles in the United States." |
Randolph-Macon College will host a lecture by Dr. Maxine Margolis, titled “As Time Goes By: Women’s Changing Roles in the United States,” on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. in the Washington-Franklin Hall.
The lecture is free and open to the public and is the first in an interdisciplinary series, “Working Girls,” which is sponsored by CASE (Committee on Assemblies and Special Events) and the Randolph-Macon College history, art history, sociology and anthropology, and women’s studies departments. Margolis’ lecture is presented in conjunction with the course
Introduction to Women's Studies, taught by R-MC Professor Debra Rodman, Ph.D. (sociology and anthropology, and women’s studies).
Margolis, who analyzes the changes in American attitudes toward women throughout history, is Professor Emerita of anthropology at the University of Florida and adjunct senior research scholar at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Columbia University. She was inducted as a fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Margolis will also be speaking to Rodman’s
Peoples of Latin America class and to the students in
Introduction to Theory and Method in the Study of Culture, taught by Professor Brian Turner, Ph.D. (political science). She will discuss her research on Brazilian immigration and her book,
An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City. Margolis’ areas of research interest include transnational migration, women’s roles in the U.S. and gender roles cross-culturally. She is a recipient of grants and scholarships from the National Science Foundation and the Fulbright Foundation, and others. She has been a professor at the University of Florida since 1984 and earned her bachelor’s degree in anthropology from New York University and her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University.
The second “Working Girls” lecture will take place on March 2, 2010 at 7 p.m. in the Topping Room of Old Chapel. Jennifer Scanlon, professor of gender and women’s studies at Bowdoin College, will discuss her book,
Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown. For more information on the “Working Girls” series, contact Pam Cox at (804) 752-3712 or at
pamelacox@rmc.edu