Sponsor
Duke History
Co-Sponsor(s)
NCSU Department of History; Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University; Provost’s Office of Wake Forest University; Carolina Seminars
Triangle Intellectual History Seminar Series
Leslie Butler on Democracy
Sunday, December 7,
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Speaker(s): Leslie Butler
Leslie Butler is an American intellectual and cultural historian, with an emphasis on the nineteenth century. She is a Professor of History and Vice Chair of the Department of History at Dartmouth College. Butler is the author of two books:
Consistent Democracy: The "Woman Question" and Self-Government in Nineteenth Century America (Oxford University Press, 2023), which was awarded the Annual Book Prize from the Society of U.S. Intellectual History and short-listed for the Edwards Book Award, Rodel Institute.
and Critical Americans: Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform (University of North Carolina Press, 2007).
She joined the faculty at Dartmouth in 2003 and since then she has also taught at University College, London and Occidental College, where she was the 2020-21 Ray Allen Billington Visiting Professor. Her other scholarship includes articles and contributions to the Cambridge History of America and the World and the Oxford Illustrated History of the United States. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Huntington Library, the American Antiquarian Society, and Massachusetts Historical Society.
Paper will be pre-circulated. Email tihs@duke.edu to request a copy.
