Nancy
F. Cott
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Friday, June 20, 2003
4:30 pm - 5:15 pm
Closing Address
Nancy F. Cott holds a joint appointment at Harvard University as
the Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and the Carl
and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth
Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. One of the
leading scholars in the field of American women’s history,
Cott was a longtime professor of history and former chair of the
women’s studies and American studies programs at Yale University.
She is the author of seven books and the recipient of numerous awards
and fellowships. From her path-breaking 1977 work The Bonds
of Womanhood: “Woman’s Sphere” in New England,
1780-1835, to her most recent book Public Vows: A History
of Marriage and the Nation, Cott has explored nearly every
facet of American women’s history, including aspects of citizenship
and family law, origins of the feminist movement, and American political
culture. She brings to the symposium’s closing address a remarkable
scholarly output and her unique perspective as an educator, historian,
biographer, film consultant, documentary editor, and director of
one of the country’s leading women’s history libraries.
Web site:
www.fas.harvard.edu/~history/faculty/profiles/cott.html
Photo credit: Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office
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