Lecture by Professor Nicola K. Beisel (Sociology and Gender Studies, Northwestern University)

Title - "Unspeakable Questions: Race and the Politics of Abortion in America"

Cosponsored with the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute, the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, and the Women’s Resource Center

Time:  2:30 pm

Venue: 326, Academic

Professor Beisel is an associate professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Northwestern University. A historical sociologist, her work examines the relationship between moral politics and the reproduction of children. Her first book, Imperiled Innocents: Anthony Comstock and Family Reproduction in Victorian America (Princeton, 1997), examined the career of Anthony Comstock and his wealthy supporters in the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. She is currently working on a book entitled Aborting Race: Color Blindness in the American Abortion Debate. Her co-authored paper "Abortion, Race and Gender in Nineteenth Century America," appeared in the American Sociological Review in 2004 and was awarded "Best Recent Article" prizes by the Political Sociology section and the Race, Class and Gender section of the American Sociological Association. Professor Beisel has been the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Humanities Center, and was named Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence in 2000.