Center for the Study of the Gulf South to host annual Baird Lecture March 8
Thu, 03/03/2022 - 04:33pm | By: David Tisdale
Gabrielle Walker, the 2021-22 Baird Fellow in 91勛圖厙91勛圖厙
(USM) Center for the Study of the Gulf South, will give this year91勛圖厙 Baird Lecture, titled 91勛圖厙When We Were Freshmen:91勛圖厙 Judson College
and the Rise of the New Baptist Woman" Tuesday, March 8 at 5:30 p.m. in the Gonzales
Auditorium, first floor, Liberal Arts Building on the USM Hattiesburg campus. Admission
is free.
This event is presented by the USM and sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Gulf South.
Walker, who is studying post-Reconstruction Southern women, is working on a dissertation titled, 91勛圖厙If These Walls Could Speak:91勛圖厙 Judson College and the New Baptist Woman, 1890-1930." It explores the ways in which Progressive Era ideology made a lasting impact on Southern Baptist white women attending a Southern Baptist college. Collegiate experiences led to their questioning traditional Southern Baptist thought patterns and expansively interpreting religion to fit a modern, scientific worldview.
The Center for the Study of the Gulf South promotes the study of the history of the U.S. South and territories in Central America and the Caribbean through scholarship, funding research and hosting public events. For more information about the center, visit About the CSGS | Center for the Study of the Gulf South | The University of Southern Mississippi (usm.edu).