Elizabeth Colwill
Associate Professor of Women’s Studies,
San Diego State University

"The 'Gift of Liberty':
Marriage, Manhood, and Citizenship
in Revolutionary Saint Domingue"

Thursday, 10 March 2005
4:00 p.m.
Curti Lounge, 5243 Humanities Building
455 N. Park Street

Sponsored by
The Center for European Studies
The Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies Program
The Transnational Gender History Workshop
The Internationalizing History Seminar
and The Goldberg Center

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Professor Colwill is a cultural historian who has taught extensively on feminist thought, women in modern
European history, the history of sexuality, and the history of the body. Her research interests concern the intersecting histories of gender, sexuality, slavery, and colonialism in France and the Caribbean. She is currently working on a monograph entitled "The Empire of Ritual: Sex, Savagery, and Slavery in the French and Haitian Revolutions."