The Centennial Woman’s Suffrage Project, an interdisciplinary group at Southeastern Louisiana University seeking to commemorate 100 years since the 19th Amendment’s ratification, will make a presentation at the Hermann-Grima + Gallier Historic Houses on Dec. 9 at 6 p.m.
Dr. Carol Madere of the Department of Communication and Media Studies will speak on the national movement and laws which have changed to grant women more civil rights, Dr. Lisa Moody of the English Department will describe the state suffrage movement, and Dr. Elizabeth Hornsby of the Department of Languages and Communication will discuss the black suffragists movement.
This panel discussion is part of the traveling exhibit on suffrage, which will be at the Hermann-Grima House and was produced through a Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Rebirth Grant, November 30th-December 11th.
About the Speakers:
Carol Madere is a Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Southeastern Louisiana University. She is currently the Elizabeth Weeks Jones Endowed Professor of the Humanities as well as undergraduate coordinator and a full-time faculty member. She earned bachelors and master's degrees from Louisiana State University and her doctorate from the University of Southern Mississippi. Carol teaches in the areas of strategic communication and journalism. She recently published three books, Viewpoints on Media Effects, Celebrity Media Effects, and How Celebrity Lives Affect Our Own. Carol has presented at the International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organizations, the National Popular Culture Association Conference, and at the Southern States Communication Association Conference.
Lisa Moody earned her Ph. D. from Louisiana State University where she was a Board of Regents Fellow. She has a Master’s Degree from Northwestern University, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago. She specializes in nineteenth-century literature, both American and British, with a focus on religion and realism. Currently, she is a full-time faculty member at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana.
She has presented before at the PCA Conference in Indianapolis in 2006: “Edmund Hoyle’s Treatises on Whist: Literary Piracy in the Eighteenth Century.” Midwest Popular Culture Annual Conference: Toys and Games Panel, Indianapolis, IN, 28 October 2006. More recent presentations include: “Searching for the Church: Obscure Places and the Ministers’ Fall from Grace.” American Literature Association Symposium: Regionalism and Place in American Literature. New Orleans, 9 Sep. 2017. And presentations on Edgar Allan Poe, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Mark Twain.
Dr. Elizabeth Robertson Hornsby is a full time faculty member in the Department of Languages and Communication at Southeastern Louisiana University where she teaches communication and media studies classes. She received her doctorate from Regent University in Communication Studies and a master’s degree and bachelor’s degree from Southeastern Louisiana University. Her research interests include exploring race and gender discourse in physical and digital spaces through a black feminist lens. Elizabeth has presented nationally at the National Popular Culture Association Conference and the Religious Communication Association Conference, regionally at the Popular Culture Association of the South Conference and Southern States Communication Association Conference, and locally at the University of Louisiana System Conference. Elizabeth has authored a chapter in Celebrity Media Effects: The Persuasive Power of the Stars and is currently working on a book chapter regarding race and sense making in the forthcoming edited collection Coloring Outside the Lines.
Pay what you can: We have made Gallier Gatherings free to attend while in-person programming is paused, but we still have costs associated with putting on this program. We are accepting donations if you are in a position to support our museum. With this money, we will pay honoraria to all current and future presenters and cover overhead expenses such as Zoom and other technological services.