Keynote Speaker

 

Katherine Jellison

will deliver the lecture:

"The Four Freedoms in Amish Country:  Visual Images of Amish and Mennonite Farm Families in World War II Propaganda"

on Friday, October 15, 2010

Katherine Jellison, Ohio University, received her Ph.D. at the University of Iowa, where she studied with one of the pioneers in the field of U.S. women's history, Linda K. Kerber. In addition to her graduate and undergraduate courses in women's history, Jellison teaches graduate courses entitled "1960s in the United States " and "Issues in Contemporary History." She has won numerous teaching honors at Ohio University, including the Excellence in Feminist Pedagogy Award, the University Professor Award, and designation as a Fellow in the Charles J. Ping Institute for the Teaching of the Humanities. She has also received numerous research grants and fellowships, including awards from the Smithsonian Institution and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Jellison is the author of Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 (University of North Carolina Press, 1993), It's Our Day: America's Love Affair with the White Wedding, 1945-2005 (University Press of Kansas, 2008), and many journal articles and book chapters. Her current work is an exploration of the Pennsylvania Old Order Amish in the 1930s and 1940s. Her presentation will focus on this on-going work.