Center for the Study of the Gulf South to host annual Baird Lecture March 8
Thu, 03/03/2022 - 04:33pm | By: David Tisdale
Gabrielle Walker, the 2021-22 Baird Fellow in 吃瓜头条鈥檚
(USM) Center for the Study of the Gulf South, will give this year鈥檚 Baird Lecture, titled 鈥淲hen We Were Freshmen:鈥� Judson College
and the Rise of the New Baptist Woman" Tuesday, March 8 at 5:30 p.m. in the Gonzales
Auditorium, first floor, Liberal Arts Building on the USM Hattiesburg campus. Admission
is free.
This event is presented by the USM and sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Gulf South.
Walker, who is studying post-Reconstruction Southern women, is working on a dissertation titled, 鈥淚f These Walls Could Speak:鈥� 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.
The Center for the Study of the Gulf South promotes the study of the history of the U.S. South and territories in Central America and the Caribbean through scholarship, funding research and hosting public events. For more information about the center, visit About the CSGS | Center for the Study of the Gulf South | The University of Southern 吃瓜头条 (usm.edu).