Historian to speak tonight

Barbara Weinstein, president of the American Historical Association and professor of modern Latin American history and Brazilian history at New York University, comes to campus Thursday, April 12, for a public lecture and meetings with faculty and students.

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She will speak on "Slavery and Its Legacies: Race and Gender in Brazil," 9-10:45 a.m. in the Breazzano House Common Room. A lunch with faculty members from the Department of History, Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Africana Studies is scheduled for 12:50-1:50 p.m. at Reamer Campus Center.

Weinstein will meet with students 4-5 p.m. in the Social Sciences Lounge to discuss, "‘So You Have B.A. in History?': What Students are Doing with Humanities and Social Science Degrees in the 21st Century Job Market." Her visit will culminate with a 7p.m. lecture in the Reamer Campus Center Auditorium, titled "Being a Historian in the Age of National (In)Security." The event is free and open to the public.

Weinstein holds an A.B. in History and Latin American Studies from Princeton and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale. She has taught at Vanderbilt University, the State University of New York at Stony Brook and the University of Maryland at College Park.

She has published two monographs on Brazilian social, economic and political history and written dozens of book chapters, essays and journal articles on industrial workers, slavery and regionalism. She has been awarded Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities and Fulbright-Hays fellowships.