Christa Hardy will defend her proposal, "Piecin' a Quilt: Jessie Carney Smith and African American Women's History." A copy of the proposal is available in 112 LIS Building. All those interested are welcome to attend. The committee includes Linda Smith, Christine Jenkins, Erik McDuffie (African American Studies/Gender & Women's Studies/History), and Karla Moller (Curriculum & Instruction)Jessie Carney Smith was also an librarian and recorder of black women's history. Go Christa!
Explorations in African American Quilting, Quilt History, Fabrics and other Fanciful Topics.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Christa Hardy defends her dissertation
I was excited to read today about the upcoming, December 3, 2007 dissertation defense by Christa Hardy, a second-generation librarian from Tuskegee, AL, at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Graduate School of Library and Information Science. According to the university's website: