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Past Lecturers

1997

Helen Cam Walker, Associate Professor of History, W&M: "Lyon and the Ladies: the Early History of Women at William & Mary"

1998

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Leisa Meyer, Associate Professor of History, W&M: "Contesting G.I. Jane:The Challenges of a Gender-Integrated Military"

1999

Maureen Fitzgerald, Assistant Professor of American Studies, W&M: "Searching for Catholic Women's Agency: Reflections on Research, Writing and Subjectivity"

2000

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Joyce Follet, Producer, Step by Step: "Step by Step: Building a Feminist Movement, 1941-1877"

2001

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Susan Cahn, Associate Professor of History, SUNY, Buffalo: "Feminism and Sport"

2002

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Patricia Yancey Martin, Daisy Parker Flory Professor of Sociology, Florida State University: "Doing Work, Doing Gender: Women and Men Construct Each Other on the Job"

2003

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Stacy Wolf, Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas at Austin: "'Wouldn't it be loverly?' Broadway Musicals, Feminism and Queer Scholarship"

2004

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Jane Espenson, writer and producer (The Gilmore Girls, Ellen, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), keynote speaker at conference on "Women, Gender, and Television"

2005

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Laurie Kahn Leavitt, filmmaker, introducing Tupperware! at the Cohen Forum

2006

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Lisa Duggan, Associate Professor of American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies, New York University: "The Gay Marriage Blues, or, Same Sex Adultery, Bigamy, Gold Digging, and Divorce"

2007

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Regina Barreca, Professor of English at the University of Connecticut:"Harass is One Word: Laughter, Feminism, and the Importance of Making Yourself Heard"

2008

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Pamela Stone, Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, "Women, Careers and Family:The Rhetoric and Reality of ‘Opting Out'"

2009

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Annelise Orleck, Professor of History, Dartmouth University, "What If Poor Women Ran the World?: Some Lessons from Las Vegas"

2010

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Kathy Davis, senior researcher at the Institute of History and Culture at Utrecht University,  "Feminism as Traveling Theory: the Case of Our Bodies, Ourselves"

2011

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   Carla Freeman, Winship Distinguished Research Professor in Anthropology and Women's Studies at Emory University, "Enterprising Selves"

 2012

Sharon Marcus

 Sharon Marcus,  Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, "The Double Life of Female Celebrity"