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Spring Semester 2012
A MASQUE OF CHARACTERS: An early 17th-century English entertainment
April 4, 2012 7:00 - 8:30 pm Glavin Chapel
Performed by Heart's Ease
Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano
Carol Lewis, viola de gamba
Olav Chris Henriksen, Renaissance lute
At the Stuart courts, the nobles not only enjoyed characters and revelry, but also appreciated music of depth and sophistication, timeless qualities that make this music as attractive today as it was four hundred years ago.
MARY GODWYN, Associate Professor of Sociology, was the faculty recipient of Babson's 2012 Women Who Make a Difference Award on March 1, 2012.
Marjorie Feld new Faculty Director of CWL
PROFESSOR MARJORIE FELD has accepted the position as Faculty Director of the Center for Women’s Leadership. Together with Susan Duffy, the incoming Executive Director, she will form the leadership team for the CWL.
Professor Feld's book entitled Lillian Wald: A Biography has been acclaimed as being a social history of the ways that gender, class, and ethnicity come together in the context of cultural evolution. Her work cuts across multiple academic disciplines, such as American history, women’s studies, and Jewish studies. She has taught courses in U.S. history, U.S Women’s History, and U.S. Labor History. She has been recognized as one of the influential women leaders on campus.
Fall Semester 2011
Corporate Dreams
PROFESSOR JAMES HOOPES’ latest book, Corporate Dreams: Big Business in American Democracy from the Great Depression to the Great Recession, was just published by Rutgers University Press.
In his review of the book Nelson Lichtenstein, MacArthur Foundation Chair in History, University of California, Santa Barbara states "In this expansive, engaging, and learned history of the ever-changing set of ideas and ideologies which have legitimated corporate power and profit in America, James Hoopes explores the presumptions, popular as well as academic, that have for so long sustained managerial authority and corporate prestige. Because Hoopes is a thoughtful ethicist, as well as an accomplished historian of business enterprise, his book has the kind of moral weight and political urgency that commend it to a very wide readership indeed."
James Hoopes is Murata Professor of Business Ethics. He has written several books, on subjects ranging from business history to American political theory, including Hail to the CEO: George W. Bush and the Failure of Moral Leadership.
Spring Semester 2011
MARY GODWYN, History and Society, and Donna Stoddard, TOIM, have a new book, Minority Women Entrepreneurs: How Outsider Status Can Lead to Better Business Practices, published by Stanford University Press, USA and Greenleaf Publishing, UK.
Minority women start new businesses in the U.S. at four times the rate of non-minority men and women. Though minority women entrepreneurs in the United States are thriving, their stories are very seldom told, and few think of minority women as successful entrepreneurs. Minority Women Entrepreneurs gives voice and visibility to this group of business owners.
The second purpose of this book is to explain what makes these women different from the standard white, male business owners with whom most people are familiar. Through in-depth interviews and firsthand accounts from minority women entrepreneurs, the authors found that minority women use their outsider status to develop socially conscious business practices that support their communities in innovative and exciting ways.
Watch Mary Godwyn's interview on NECN.