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March 10, 2005
Eleanor Roosevelt Scholar to Speak at William
Paterson University
Eleanor Roosevelt, America’s First Lady for four administrations
in the 1930s and 1940s and a political activist and a champion of
human rights, is the topic of a lecture by scholar Blanche Weisen
Cook on April 7 at William Paterson University in Wayne.
Weisen Cooke, a distinguished author and professor at John Jay College
and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will
present the lecture at 2 p.m. in the David and Lorraine Cheng Library
Auditorium.
Cook’s most recent book, “Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume
Two,” was published in 1999, and she is currently working
on the third and final volume of the biography. She has also edited
and contributed to several anthologies and written frequent reviews
and columns for newspapers and periodicals. Cook has produced and
hosted her own program for Radio Pacifica, “Women and the
World in the 1990s.” Cook has appeared frequently on television
programs such as “The Today Show” and “Good Morning
America.”
Cook is the co-founder and co-chair of the Freedom of Information
and Access Committee of the Organization of American Historians.
In 1996, she was named Scholar of the Year by the New York State
Council on the Humanities. Cook received her doctorate from Johns
Hopkins University.
This program is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the College
of Humanities and the Social Sciences and the Department of Women’s
Studies.
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