Women's History Month Events Sponsored by Law Women

On Wednesday, March 23, we'll be hosting Noël M. V. Foster, a Ph.D. candidate at Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. Ms. Foster will be sharing her dissertation research onBlack Female Agency and Sexual Exploitation: Quadroon Balls and Plaçage Relationships. Her research focuses on the lives of Louisiana’s free women of color in New Orleans from 1805 to 1860 and looks at the unique social institution of Quadroon Balls and plaçage relationships as a lens to understand the sexual and economic choices of free women of color in that time period.

Second, on Wednesday, March 30, we'll be hosting Rachel Devlin, Associate Professor of History here at Tulane. Prof. Delvin will be speaking about her current research project: Girls on the Front Line: Gender and the Battle to Desegregate Public Schools in the United States. Her research examines the cultural politics of girlhood and race in the twentieth century by considering the disproportionate number of girls who were plaintiffs in desegregation lawsuits prior to Brown v. Board of Education, and who were desegregation “firsts” at white schools in the late nineteen fifties and early nineteen sixties.

Please come join us for these two interesting talks. Both will take place at 12noon and food will be served. Locations TBA, but will be either Room 110 and/or the MPR patio.