MONMOUTH, Ill. — Noted women’s historian Elisabeth Israels Perry and
award-winning journalist Salim Muwakkil will speak at Monmouth College on
March 26.
Perry, the chair of the history department at Saint Louis University,
will speak at 7 p.m. on “The Politics of Coeducation in the Nineteenth
Century” in the Whiteman-McMillan Highlander Room in the college’s
Stockdale Cemter.
Muwakkil, an op-ed columnist for the Chicago Tribune and senior editor
of In These Times, will give two talks. He will address “Race and the
Incarceration Epidemic” at 2 p.m. in Room 114 of Wallace Hall and “The
U.S.-Iraqi Conflict: Did We Need to Wage War?” at 4 p.m. in the Morgan
Room in Poling Hall.
All three talks are free and open to the public.
Perry, whose appearance coincides with Women’s History Month and the
college’s sesquicentennial, received her undergraduate degree in history
from UCLA in 1967 and her Ph.D. in 1970. She’s authored four books,
including the award-winning “Belle Moskowitz: Feminine Politics and the
Exercise of Power in the Age of Alfred E. Smith.”
“She’s going to talk about the nexus of women’s education and the
expansion of democracy in the 19th century in this country,” said
Stacy Cordery, associate professor of history at MC. “She will also
explore how Monmouth College fit into the larger movement of educational
reform where women were concerned.”
Monmouth, which had women in its first entering class, was one of the
earliest coeducational colleges in the United States.
Muwakkil began his career in journalism at the Newark, N.J., bureau of
the Associated Press after graduating from Rutgers University in 1972. In
addition to his career as a journalist, he has taught urban studies,
media, journalism and black cinema in colleges and universities throughout
the Midwest and lectures frequently on issues of race, culture, and
politics. He has been a frequent guest on Chicago Tonight, a
nationally-syndicated radio program of political commentary, and has
provided political analysis for Fox TV News in Chicago. He also has been a
contributing author to six books, including “Collateral Damage: The New
World Order at Home and Abroad.”
