What Matters to Me & Why - Allyson Hobbs
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
12:00 pm
Common Room in the Center for Inter-Religious Community, Learning and Experiences (CIRCLE) at Old Union, 3rd Floor Map
Sponsored by:
Office for Religious Life
The purpose of What Matters to Me and Why is to encourage reflection within the Stanford community on matters of personal values, beliefs, and motivations in order to better understand the lives and inspirations of those who shape the University.
Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor, Department of History
Allyson Hobbs is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Stanford
University. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and she received a Ph.D. with
distinction from the University of Chicago. She has received fellowships from the
Ford Foundation and the Clayman Institute for Gender Research.
Allyson teaches
courses on American identity, African American history, African American women’s history,
and twentieth century American history. She is particularly interested in identity
formation, racial mixture, migration and urbanization, and the intersections of race,
class and gender.
She has won numerous teaching awards including the
Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, the Hoefer Faculty Mentor Prize, the Graves Award in
the Humanities, and the St. Clair Drake Teaching Award.
The entire 2015 - 2016 lineup is as follows:
November 4: Connie Wolf
January 13: Lucy Shapiro
February 17: Allyson
Hobbs
April: TBA
May 4: Sidney and Persis Drell
- When:
- Wednesday, February 17, 2016.
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm - Admission:
Open to all.
- Tags:
- Audience:
- General Public, Faculty/Staff, Students, Alumni/Friends
- Contact:
- (650) 724-7174, dianea1@stanford.edu
- More info:
- Visit this website
