'Three Women Change the World: Lessons for Today' at Elizabethtown College March 31

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Carol Wilson Spigner

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (03/17/2010)(readMedia)-- The Women and Gender Studies Department at Elizabethtown College hosts Dr. Carol Wilson Spigner as part of the Women's History Month Series. Her talk, "Three Women Change the World: Lessons for Today," takes place at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 31, in Hoover 110, at Elizabethtown College, and focuses on the work of Dorothea Dix, mental health pioneer; Ida Wells Barnett, anti-lynching campaigner; and Frances Perkins, public servant. She will highlight the women's personal history, changes they made in society, the implications of their actions and what can be learned from these influential women.

Spigner, the Kenneth L.M. Pray Distinguished Professor/Clinician Educator at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice, earned her doctorate degree in social work from the University of California's School of Social Work. Previously, she was responsible for the administration of federal child welfare programs as associate commissioner of the Children's Bureau at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families. Prior to that, she served as a senior associate at the Center for the Study of Social Policy in Washington, D.C., and as a lecturer and director of the National Child Welfare Leadership Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Spigner published multiple articles on permanency planning, cultural competency and relative care. Her work focuses on the reform of child welfare policy and public child welfare agencies.

In addition to Spigner's lecture, the following events, in celebration of Women's History Month, also take place at Elizabethtown College:

• 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 17, in Hoover 112, "Women as the First Environment: Industrial Contamination and Environmental Health Studies In a Mohawk Community" with Professor Elizabeth Hoover

• noon Thursday, March 18, in Baugher Student Center 200, "Values Influence Ideas about Diversity" with Diane Elliot, director, Office of Diversity

• 4 p.m. Thursday, March 18, in Hoover 107, "Violet Oakley (1874-1961): Painting the Spirit of History at the Pennsylvania State Capitol" with Professor Patricia Ricci

• 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, March 23, in Hoover 107, "Women in Business" with Professor Emma Neuhauser

• 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 24, in Hoover 112, "The Many Faces of Brazilian Women" with Carol Ouimet

• noon Thursday, March 25, in Baugher Student Center, "Same-Gender Marriages" with ALLIES

• 4 p.m. Friday, March 26, in the Blue Bean Area, "The Trojan Women and Their Daughters," a short play by John Rohrkemper, performed by Terri Mastrobuono, Emily Grove and Jen Schoonmaker

• 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 14 in Folklore Coffee Shop for faculty and staff and at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 20, in High Library for students, a book club meeting of "Journey from the Land of No" by Roya Hakakian

Contact: Mahua Bhattacharya at 717-361-1239.

Elizabethtown College, in southeastern Pennsylvania, is a private coed college with degrees in liberal arts, fine and performing arts, science and engineering, business, communications and education. The hallmarks of an Elizabethtown education are academic rigor, high expectations and intellectual curiosity. Our faculty members are teacher-scholars, pursuing their academic areas of expertise while sharing that expertise with students. For more information about Elizabethtown College, please visit our website at www.etown.edu.

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