Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Convocation Hall
6:30pm
On April 7, Sewanee is proud to welcome Dr. Katherine Parkin, Professor and Jules Plangere, Jr. Endowed Chair in American Social History at Monmouth University, and Dr. Katherine Turk, Professor and Adjunct Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, to campus as the 2026 Anita S. Goodstein Lecturers in Women's History. Moderated by Dr. Melody Lehn, Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies, their lecture and roundtable, "Revisiting Sex and the Office: A Conversation on the History of Gender, Power, and Desire" will explore the contemporary challenges women face in the workplace alongside key insights of the newly released second edition of Sex and the Office, written by the late Dr. Julie Berebitsky, Professor of History at Sewanee and founding director of the university's Women's and Gender Studies program. Dr. Berebitsky's pathbreaking work of scholarship, Sex and the Office, was first published in 2012 by Yale University Press. The second edition from the University of North Carolina Press features a new foreword and afterword by, respectively, Dr. Turk and Dr. Parkin. Dr. Berebitsky began her Sewanee career in 1997 and introduced courses in U.S. women’s history and women’s and gender studies.
(Tune in via Zoom: https://sewanee-edu.
These events are Co-sponsored by the History Department, the Women's and Gender Studies program, and the Roberson Project.
