Educator, historian, activist, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Ph.D.,
known for her biography of Eleanor Roosevelt, will speak on “Eleanor Roosevelt
and the Promise of Human Rights,” at Adelphi University on Monday, March 18, 2013
at 12:00 p.m. in Adelphi's Ruth S. Harley University Center, Room 313, 1 South
Avenue, Garden City, NY. The event is free and open to the public.
Her widely acclaimed biography, Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1 (Viking Penguin, 1992) and Volume II (Viking Penguin, 1999)
received numerous awards and were on the New
York Times bestseller list. Volume I
won The Los Angeles Times 1992
Biography Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award. She is currently working on the
third and final volume of Eleanor
Roosevelt.
Dr. Cook is a distinguished professor of history and women's
studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center of the
City University of New York. She was honored as Scholar of the Year by the New
York State Council on the Humanities in1996.
In addition to her teaching, she is a frequent contributor
of reviews and columns in many newspapers and periodicals. Her book, The Declassified Eisenhower, was listed
by the New York Times Book Review as
one of the notable books of 1981. She is the author of Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution (Oxford University Press).
She served as vice president for research of the American
Historical Association and vice president and chair of the Fund for Open
Information and Accountability (FOIA, Inc.). She co-founded and co-chaired the
Freedom of Information and Access Committee of the Organization of American
Historians.
She received her doctorate degree from Johns Hopkins
University and bachelor's degree from Hunter College.
For more information about this and other events on campus,
please visit www.adelphi.edu, or
call the Cultural Events Hotline at (516) 877-4555.
About Adelphi
University:
Adelphi is a world class, modern university with excellent and highly relevant
programs where students prepare for lives of active citizenship and
professional careers. Through its schools and programs—The College of Arts and
Sciences, Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Honors College,
Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, University College, Robert B. Willumstad
School of Business, Schools of Nursing and Social Work—the co-educational
university offers undergraduate and graduate degrees as well as professional
and educational programs for adults. Adelphi University currently enrolls
nearly 8,000 students from 43 states and 45 foreign countries. With its
main campus in Garden City and centers in Manhattan, Hauppauge, and
Poughkeepsie, the University, chartered in 1896, maintains a commitment to liberal
studies in tandem with rigorous professional preparation and active
citizenship.
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