Sarah Deutsch is dean of social sciences at Duke University. Her research focuses on gender, racial, and spatial formations from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. She has published extensively on gender and race relations in the U.S. West, particularly the Southwest, and on the urban northeast. Her most recent book is Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940 (2000), and her most recent article is “Being American in Boley, Oklahoma,” in Beyond Black and White (2004). She is currently at work on a history of the U.S. West from 1898-1942.

Lecture topics:

• Dreams of Inclusion--Re-narrating Race and Gender in the History of the U.S. West
• Power, Place and Identity: Women in Public, 1890-1930
• Shifting Paradigms and Racing Mexicans in the Age of U.S. Imperialism

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