About this Event
3144 Pearl Street, Hattiesburg, MS 39406
https://www.usm.edu/gulf-south/news-events.phpA Louisiana native currently living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia, E. Gabrielle Walker is the 2021-22 Baird Fellow in the Center for the Study of the Gulf South. Walker will present a lecture, “'When We Were Freshmen': Judson College and the Rise of the New Baptist Woman."
Walker, who is studying post-Reconstruction Southern women, is working on a dissertation titled, “'If These Walls Could Speak': Judson College and the New Baptist Woman, 1890-1930." It explores the ways in which Progressive Era ideology made a lasting impact on Southern Baptist white women attending a Southern Baptist college. Collegiate experiences led to their questioning traditional Southern Baptist thought patterns and expansively interpreting religion to fit a modern, scientific worldview.
This event is presented by the Committee on Services and Resources for Women (CSRW) and sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Gulf South. CSRW will continue to sponor a series of events open to the public for Women's History Month.