 | Dean Drew Gilpin Faust introduces panel chair Jane Mangan,
assistant professor of history at Harvard University, who then introduces the
panelists: Professor Judith Bennett, an authority on the history of women in
medieval England who is well known for her publications on feminist history;
Professor Linda Seligmann, whose work focuses on the Andean region of Latin America
and who has studied local economy, agrarian issues, and the intersection of gender
and ethnicity; Professor Claire Robertson, a leading scholar on women in Africa who
has published widely on issues of trade, women and class, and women and slavery; and
Professor Emmanuel Akyeampong, a specialist on the ecology, cultural history, and
social history of Africa with a special emphasis on the social history of alcohol.
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