Thursday, March 6, 2003: 3:00-5:00 p.m.
In this presentation, Steven Mintz will place a variety of
family related topics into historical perspective, including
traditional family values, racial and class variation in family
patterns, divorce, child abuse, and parental anxiety over
children. His basic theme is that no reputable social scientist
would imagine neglecting such variables as class, ethnicity,
or gender, but that it is easy to omit an equally important
variable, time.
A specialist in the history of the American family, Steven
Mintz is professor of history at the University of Houston.
A native of Detroit, he received his B.A. from Oberlin College
in 1973 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1979, where
he completed his dissertation under the direction of David
Brion Davis. Before joining the faculty at Houston, he taught
at Oberlin College. He has also taught at Universitat-GH-Siegen
in Germany, the Harvard University Extension School, Pepperdine
University, and Yale University.
As acting department chair at Houston, he authored a grant
proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities that
will set up three endowed chairs in African and African American
Studies. He serves as an editor of New York University's American
Social Experience series and has been a visiting scholar at
Harvard's Center for European Studies.
His latest book is Moralists and Modernizers: America's
Pre-Civil War Reformers (1995). He is author of A Prison
of Expectations: The Family in Victorian Culture (1983),
co-author of Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of
American Family Life (1988) and America and Its People
(2nd ed., 1993), editor of African American Voices: The
Life Cycle of Slavery (1993) and Native American Voices
(1995) and co-editor of Hollywood's America (1994).
The MARIAL Center
Emory West, 4th Floor, Room 415E
Open to the public
Refreshments will be served
