Karin Wulf, professor of history at the College of William and Mary and director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, will be visiting UConn next Monday-Tuesday, April 7 - 8, 2014 and giving two public presentations.
The first is a lecture entitled "Gender, Genealogy, and Local Cultures of Knowledge in British America," to be presented in the Wood Hall basement lounge from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Monday, April 7. The talk will present findings from her book-in-progress about genealogy and family history in early America. A reception at 4:30 p.m. will precede the formal program.
On Tuesday morning, April 8, 2014, from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM, Professor Wulf will discuss the latest initiatives and direction of the Omohundro Institute under her leadership. She was named director of the Institute, the oldest center for scholarship about early American history and culture, in 2013.
Karin Wulf is a leading historian of women, gender, and family in early America and more broadly in the early modern Atlantic world. Her first book, Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia (2000), explored women=s struggles for individual autonomy in the Quaker City, in the face of gender norms, economic insecurity, and poverty. She has also brought the writings and voices of two women from the eighteenth century to modern audience in collaborative editions. One is Milcah Martha Moore's Book: A Commonplace Book from Revolutionary America, co-edited with Catherine Blecki (1997); the other is The Diary of Hannah Callender, 1758�1788, co-edited with Susan Klepp (2010).
The presentations are sponsored by the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair of Early American History. Members of the University community are welcome at both events.
For more information, contact: Robert Gross at robert.gross@uconn.edu