Humanities Teacher Award winner Dr. Allison Abra (University of Southern Mississippi) will present her public lecture, “Overlooked No More: Women’s History in the Classroom and Beyond.” Reception to follow.
This lecture will explore strategies for restoring the voices and experiences of “overlooked” women in the history classroom and historical scholarship. It will reflect on how to negotiate a balance between making women a central part of the historical narrative, and avoiding ghettoizing their experiences as separate and distinctive. In particular, the lecture will use as a case study the history of the British women who served as secret agents in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II, in order to explore the mechanisms by which some women get remembered by history, while others get forgotten.
