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The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and The Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program co- host an annual event bringing together faculty, staff, students, and community members to recognize people who have made a difference in academia. Each speaker will have five minutes to tell the story of the woman in his or her discipline that changed the field in important ways.
Refreshments will follow.
SPEAKER LIST
Robert J. JonesChancellor
Shanondora BilliotSchool of Social Work
Cynthia BuckleyDepartment of Sociology
Jennifer L. DavisDepartment of Anthropology
Margareth EtienneCollege of Law
Irvin Joseph HuntDepartment of English
King LiDean, Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Gioconda Guerra PerezAssistant Vice Chancellor for Diversity
Gene E. RobinsonCarl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Medra Roberts-SoutherlandDiversity Committees and Advocacy
Gabriel SolisHead, Department of Theatre
Ruth SosnoffNational Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)