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Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University

Leading U.S. historian Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University, will deliver the University’s annual Louis L. Redding Diversity Lecture at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, March 13, in the theatre of the Trabant University Center, Main Street and South College Avenue, Newark.

The Louis Lorenzo Redding Diversity Award also will be presented at this time. The lecture and award honor the late outstanding civil rights attorney, who was the first African American to be admitted to the Delaware bar.

Painter is the author of five books and several articles relating to the history of the American South. Most recently, she wrote “Southern History Across the Color Line,” focusing on relationships between men and women of different races. Her critically acclaimed book, “Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol,” which highlights the life of the black abolitionist and women’s rights advocate, won the nonfiction prize of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Her third book, “Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919,” won the Letitia Brown Memorial Publication Prize from the Association of Black Women Historians. Her research explores issues of personal beauty, stereotypes of gender and race and the history of racial prejudice in America.

Among her awards, Painter has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, the Bunting Institute, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

From 1997-2000, Painter directed the Program in African-American Studies at Princeton. Prior to joining the faculty of Princeton in 1988, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Painter received her master’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her doctorate from Harvard University. She also attended universities in France and Ghana.

For more information, call (302) 831-2991

Contact: Beth Thomas, (302) 831-8749
Feb. 27, 2003