The Patti McGill Peterson Center for International and Intercultural Studies is pleased to welcome Dr. Eve Stoddard as this year's CIIS Annual Lecture speaker.
Off-Campus Study: The Power of a Global Perspective
Wednesday, May 4 at 4:30 p.m., Sykes
Dr. Eve Walsh Stoddard is Professor Emerita in Global Studies at St. Lawrence University. Prior to retiring in June 2018 she was Charles A. Dana Professor of Global Studies. Originally trained at UCLA in British Eighteenth-century and Romantic literature and philosophy, she subsequently developed research and teaching interests in gender and postcolonial theory, Caribbean and Irish studies, transnational and comparative race and ethnicity, and global tourism. She has directed off-campus programs in London, Trinidad and Tobago, and Ireland, and she served as Director of the Center for International and Intercultural Studies at St. Lawrence from 1994-99. During that time her goal was to bring more attention to issues of race, ethnicity, and class to study abroad, especially through greater self-reflection on the part of students. That work culminated 2000 in the development of the global studies department of which she was the first chair. Together with her colleague, John Collins, she recently published a global studies textbook called Social and Cultural Foundations of Global Studies. Her other publications include the books Positioning Gender and Race in (Post)colonial Plantation Space; Connecting Ireland and the Caribbean and Global Multiculturalism: Comparative Studies in Race, Ethnicity, and Nation. Stoddard has served as a consultant to a number of global studies programs at other colleges. Since retiring and moving to Cape Cod, she has enjoyed channeling her love of the natural environment into landscape painting.
The CIIS Annual Lecture is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.