Celebrate Women’s History Month with us at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 29, when Dr. Jeannie Whayne will discuss the history of women’s suffrage in Arkansas. This is a virtual event.
Jeannie Whayne is university professor of history at the University of Arkansas and author of two award-winning books Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South (2011) and A New Plantation South: Land, labor, and Federal Favor (1996). She is the editor or a coauthor of nine other books, including Shadows Over Sunnyside: An Arkansas Plantation in Transition and Arkansas Delta: A Land of Paradox, both published in 1993. Whayne is a distinguished lecturer with the Organization of American Historians, a fellow of the Agricultural History Society, and winner of the Arkansas Historical Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Whayne, who served as president of the Agricultural History Society (2013-2014), was awarded the Society’s Gladys Baker Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. She is winner of the University of Arkansas’s Charles and Nadine Baum Distinguished Teaching Award (2020) and the Outstanding Mentor Award from the University of Arkansas Graduate School (2020).
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