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4/30/01

JUDITH DEGROAT NAMED PISKOR LECTURER AT SLU

CANTON -- St. Lawrence University Associate Professor of History 
Judith A. DeGroat has been named the Frank P. Piskor Faculty Lecturer 
for 2002. Next spring, DeGroat will deliver a campus lecture on the 
topic, "Headscarves and Khaki: Gendered Perceptions of Franco-Maghrebians 
in Contemporary France."
	DeGroat plans to 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 will look 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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