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2:35 p.m., March 23, 2007--Margaret L. Andersen will deliver her Inaugural Lecture as Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology at UD, at 4 p.m., Wednesday, April 4, in 104 Gore Hall. Her lecture is titled “On Land and On Sea: A Century of Women in the Rosenfeld Collection.” The Rosenfeld Collection at the Mystic Seaport Museum is one of the largest archives of maritime photography in the United States, and Andersen is doing a photographic essay of women in the collection, which will be published by the museum this year. The focus of Andersen's research is race and ethnic relations, sociology of sex and gender/women's studies and sociological theory. She is the author of Thinking About Women: Perspectives on Sex and Gender, now in its seventh edition; and coauthor or coeditor of Race, Class and Gender, in its fifth edition; Understanding A Diverse Society, in its fourth edition; Sociology: The Essentials; and Understanding Society: Readings in Sociology. Another book, entitled Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Society: The Changing Landscape, written with Elizabeth Higginbotham, UD professor of sociology, is forthcoming. Another project involves the life of art collector Paul R. Jones, who donated his extensive collection of 20th-century African-American art to the University. Andersen also has served as editor of Gender & Society. Among her honors for outstanding scholarship, Andersen was awarded the Robin M. Williams Jr. Lectureship for 2007-08 by the Eastern Sociological Society and the 2006 Jessie Bernard Award by the American Sociology Association. She also received the Sociologists for Women Feminist lecturer award. At UD, she has received the excellence in teaching award, the outstanding teaching award from the College of Arts and Sciences, the faculty mentor award from the McNair Scholars Program and the E. Arthur Trabant Institutional Award for Women's Equity. Andersen chairs the National Advisory Board for the Stanford University Center for Comparative Study in Race and Ethnicity, where she was a visiting professor. She also was a visiting professor in women's studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Joining the UD faculty in 1974, Andersen served as the interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and as vice provost for academic affairs. She is a graduate of Georgia State University and received her master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Photo by Kathy Atkinson |
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