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Conference
April 16th-17th, 2010
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

The conference will feature a keynote address by Deborah Gray White.  
More information will be posted as conference details are added.

Call For Papers

To launch the new Gender and Race in American History series at the University of Rochester Press, the editors plan a volume of scholarship that focuses on the intersections of gender and race in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America.

We are soliciting essays to be published in the volume and presented at a conference at the University of Rochester, April 16-17, 2010. The conference will feature a keynote address by Deborah Gray White. Essays should consider how gender and race--broadly defined--illuminate power, identity, culture, citizenship rights, work, education, and/or reform in the U.S.

Please send an abstract and essays of 8000 words (30-35 pages) to the series editors, Carol Faulkner at cfaulkne at maxwell.syr.edu, and Alison Parker, at aparker at brockport.edu by September 15, 2009.

Series Editors:
Alison M. Parker, State University of New York, College at Brockport. Author of Purifying America: Women, Cultural Reform, and Pro-Censorship Activism, 1873-1933 (University of Illinois Press, 1997); co-editor of Women and the Unstable State in Nineteenth Century America (2000); co-editor of Beyond Black and White: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the U.S. South and Southwest (2004); and Articulating Rights: Nineteenth-Century Women on Race and Reform (Northern Illinois University Press, forthcoming).

Carol Faulkner, Syracuse University. Author of Women’s Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen’s Aid Movement (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2003); co-editor of Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2002); and Prophet of Liberalism: A Biography of Lucretia Mott (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming).

Advisory Board:
*Lori D. Ginzberg, Pennsylvania State University. Author of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life (New York: Hill and Wang, forthcoming, 2010); Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman’s Rights in Antebellum New York (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2005); and Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1990).

*Virginia Sánchez Korrol, Professor Emerita, Brooklyn College, CUNY. Author of From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City (University of California Press, 1994), coauthor with Marysa Navarro of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (Indiana University Press, 1999); and coeditor with Vicki L. Ruiz of Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography and Community (Oxford University Press, 2005) and Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia (Indiana University Press, 2006).

* Michele Mitchell, New York University. Author of Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2004); North American co-editor of Gender & History; and co-editor of Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality, and African Diasporas (Blackwell Publishing, 2004).

*Nayan Shah, University of California, San Diego. Author of Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (University of California Press, 2001). New project: Sexual Aliens: South Asian Migration, Law, and Contested Citizenship.

*Ula Y. Taylor, University of California, Berkeley. Author of The Veiled Garvey: The Life and Times of Amy Jacques Garvey (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2002). In Progress: Re-Gendering a Nation: A History of the Nation of Islam.

*Victoria Wolcott, University of Rochester. Author of Remaking Respectability: African-American Women in Interwar Detroit (University of North Carolina Press, 2001). In progress: Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: Integrated Amusements in the Postwar Urban North.