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Faculty & Graduate Seminar: Premilla Nadasen

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November 17, 2016
All Day
386 University Hall

Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Event Host: Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Short Description: Premilla Nadasen is an associate professor of history at Queens College (City University of New York). She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1999 and her B.A. from the University of Michigan.


Premilla Nadasen is an associate professor of history at Queens College (City University of New York). She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1999 and her B.A. from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation on the welfare rights movement was nominated for the Bancroft Award. Her book, Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States (Routledge 2005), outlines the ways in which African American women on welfare forged a feminism of their own out of the political and cultural circumstances of the late 1960s and 1970s.

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