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Linda Gordon Visual Democracy: Dorothea Lange and the Political Culture of the New Deal Thursday, April 15, 2004 --4:10 p.m. A nationally acclaimed professor of history, Linda Gordon has specialized in exploring the historical roots of contemporary social policy debates, particularly as they concern gender and family issues. Considered one of the most important American history scholars, she has been invited to deliver numerous lectures at universities and professional organizations around the country. Gordon has also won a variety of awards and fellowships including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983 and the prestigious Wilbur Lucius Cross medal from Yale University's Graduate School. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Society of American Historians. Gordon received her Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 1970.
Before joining NYU in 1999, she taught at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison for seventeen years and the University of Massachusetts, Boston
for sixteen years. A prolific author, Gordon has written many books,
from her first-"Woman's Body, Woman's Right: The History of Birth
Control in America" (1976; new editions, 1990 and 2002), generally
considered to be the definitive history --to her most recent, "The
Great Arizona Orphan Abduction" (1999), winner of the Bancroft
prize for best book in U.S. history and the Beveridge prize for best
book on the history of the Americas. Gordon also served on the Departments
of Justice/Health and Human Services Council on Violence Against Women
for the Clinton administration. She is currently writing a book about
Dorothea Lange and strengths and weaknesses of the New Deal vision of
American democracy.
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