JUDITH WALKOWITZ, FEMINIST HISTORIAN,
TO PRESENT ANNUAL ESTELLE FEINSTEIN LECTURE
AT UCONN/STAMFORD
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
The 14th annual Estelle Feinstein Memorial Lecture will be presented by Dr. Judith Walkowitz on the topic, “The Politics of Prostitution and the Feminist Historian,” on Thursday, September 14th from 11am--1pm in UCONN/Stamford's Main Auditorium (Room A-1). Her lecture will be followed by questions and discussion. Dr. Walkowitz will discuss conclusions she has reached after extensive archival research and writing on prostitution, sexual labor, and the Jack the Ripper episode in British history, from cultural history and feminist perspectives.
Dr. Judith Walkowitz has had a distinguished career combining cultural, social and political histories from a feminist perspective. After receiving her Doctoral Degree from the University of Rochester, she taught at Rutgers University for the first half of her academic career and then for many years at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She was Director of Women’s Studies at Johns Hopkins for a number of years. She has received many academic honors and awards including National Endowment for the Humanities, Guggenheim, and American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships. She spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and another year at The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. She has published a number of books including: Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London (2012); City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London (1992); Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class and the State (2009); and has co-edited Sex and Class in Women’s History: Essays for Feminist Studies(1983). She has published numerous articles and book chapters and presented many papers and lectures in the United States, Great Britain, and other countries. She has also held important leadership positions in various academic endeavors including President of The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians and Chair of The Committee on Women Historians of the American Historical Association.
The Estelle Feinstein Memorial Lecture is an annual lecture in memory of Dr. Estelle Feinstein, a beloved teacher, mentor, scholar, colleague and friend at UCONN Stamford from 1957-1989, where she founded the History and Political Science Departments. Her specialty was American History and the Urban History of The United States. (She published highly regarded books on the city of Stamford.)
The Estelle Feinstein Memorial Lecture is co-sponsored by UCONN/Stamford (and within the Stamford Campus by the History Department and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program), The Jewish Historical Society of Fairfield County, and the Stamford Historical Society.
UCONN/Stamford is located at 1 University Place, Stamford. Admission to the event is free and open to everyone.
For more information, contact: Joel Blatt/History at joel.blatt@uconn.edu