The Charles R. and Elizabeth C. Wilson Lecture in History.
Lisa Tetrault is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Tetrault specializes in the history of U.S. women and gender. A historian of the nineteenth century, she focuses on social movements (particularly feminism), American democracy, and the politics of memory.
She is the author of The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 (2014), which won the OAH Mary Jurich Nickliss Book Prize.
Co-sponsored by the History Department and McClellan Lecture Fund.