Denison: Margaret Nash

Denison University welcomes Margaret Nash, professor at the University of California, Riverside, presenting "Thirsting for Knowledge: Women's Education in the Early Republic." Sponsored by the Department of Education, Department of History, Queer Studies and Women's and Gender Studies, Nash's talk explores women's education in the U.S. from 1780 to 1840. Nash is a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Riverside. Her research focuses on the history of education in the United States. She is interested in the social contexts for and meanings of education, the question of who gets educated and why, and the relationships between education and citizenship, and between education and identity. She has written on women's education in the early republic, music and art education in the 19th century, and on African American women educators in the era of Booker T. Washington. Recently she has been researching purges of LGBT students and faculty in the 1940s. Nash is currently editing a book on new perspectives on the history of women's education. Her academic career followed a decade of advocacy and policy work on issues of educational access and equity for girls and children of underserved populations. She is the author of "Women's Education in the United States, 1780-1840."