“Aristophanes on Communities of Women” a lecture by Dr. Arlene Saxonhouse

July 17, 2013

The department is honored to host Dr. Arlene Saxonhouse on Thursday, August 1st, 2013. She will be presenting a lecture on the topic of “Aristophanes on Communities of Women”.

 

Dr. Arlene W. Saxonhouse is the Caroline Robbins Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies and a former chair of the Department of Political Science. She has published widely in the area of classical and early political thought and women in the history of political thought. Professor Saxonhouse has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1988-89 and 2002-03), was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from the U-M in 1998, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford (1995-96 and 2000) and at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton (2002-03). She continues to do research on gender in the political thought of Plato, Aristotle and the ancient playwrights.

 

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