Sipra Salenius on "Pushing Through the Glass Ceiling: Nineteenth-Century Black American Women in Europe"

GSHAAA and the History of Art & Architecture department have the pleasure of inviting you to a guest lecture by Dr. Sirpa Salenius, Associate Researcher at the Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones (LARCA) (Paris, France). This guest lecture is facilitated by HAA Professor Melanie Hall, Associate Professor and Director of Museum Studies. Dr. Salenius is a member of EU-funded COST Action "Women on the Move," her research focuses on transatlantic mobility, race, gender, and sexuality. She has graciously offered to give a talk to the HAA community and will present a paper on what it was like to be a Black woman in Europe in the nineteenth century by examining the experiences of Mary Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907), Sallie Mercer (1829?-1894), and Sarah Parker Remond (1826-1894).