SUNY Potdam

SLU Prof to present lecture at SUNY Potsdam

10.29.09

As part of SUNY Potsdam’s Anne Righton Malone Women’s and Gender Studies Lecture Series, Dr. Judith DeGroat of St. Lawrence University’s History Department will present “Corresponding across the Mediterranean: Gender and Exile in the Last Letters of Pauline Roland” on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 4 p.m. on the eighth floor of Raymond Hall.

Roland was a French socialist feminist active in the 1830s and 1840s. She was sentenced to transportation to the French colony of Algeria in 1852 for her political activities.

Dr. DeGroat will be discussing Roland’s letters to friends, including those who were caring for her children (she was an unmarried mother of three) to explore the gendered relationships they reveal.

Dr. DeGroat is the author of articles on women’s labor and political activism in France’s July Monarchy. She has also published essays that explore the question of gender and national identity in late 20th-century France through examinations of the Franco-Maghrebian population.

For several years, Dr. DeGroat was coordinator of St. Lawrence University’s Gender Studies program for which she continues to teach courses on global gender issues. She is currently co-coordinator of SLU’s African Studies program.

Dr. DeGroat has taken student groups on study tours of the Francophone world particularly Tunisia and Senegal through the University’s study abroad program in Rouen, France, which she directed in 2006-2007. She teaches a summer course in Senegal titled “Transnational Collaborations and Civic Engagement in Senegal.”

Dr. DeGroat received her doctoral degree in history from the University of Rochester.

The lecture is free, and the public is invited to attend. The lecture series is supported by a grant from the Associated Colleges.

Contact:
Womens and Gender Studies Program
(315) 267-2079 | womens_studies@potsdam.edu