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4/8/02

JUDITH DEGROAT TO GIVE PISKOR LECTURE AT SLU

CANTON - St. Lawrence University Associate Professor of History 
Judith A. DeGroat will give the Frank P. Piskor Faculty Lecture 
on Monday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Herring-Cole on campus, on 
the topic "Headscarves and Khaki: Gendered Perceptions of 
Franco-Maghrebians in Contemporary France."
	In the lecture, DeGroat will expand upon the study of 
a 1987 commission that examined the role of people of North African 
origin in France, as part of a larger discussion of what makes one 
truly "French." Her research looks at how gender - the ways in 
which male and female roles are understood in a culture and, in 
this case, several cultures - shaped the discussion of the place 
of Franco-Maghrebians in French society.
	The Piskor Faculty Lectureship was established in 1979 to 
encourage original and continued research among St. Lawrence faculty 
members, to recognize and honor distinguished scholarship and to 
afford the opportunity for faculty to share their learning with the 
academic community.
	DeGroat's academic specialties are gender and modern French 
history. She earned her bachelor's degree and master's degree from 
the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Ph.D. from the 
University of Rochester. A member of the St. Lawrence faculty 
since 1991, she is the author of articles on women manufacturing 
workers in early 19th-century Paris and on the role of gender 
and race in the struggles to define French national identity. 
She is also the book review editor for the Radical History Review.

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