HCCC Presents Women’s History Lecture 
May 04, 2011
Herkimer County Community College recently presented a lecture by Sally Roesch Wagner on “The Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Influence on Women’s Rights.” One of the first women to receive a doctorate for work in women’s studies in the United States (UC Santa Cruz, 1978), Dr. Wagner is also a founder of one of the country’s first women’s studies programs at California State University, Sacramento (1970). The event was made possible through Speakers in the Humanities, a program of the New York Council for the Humanities. Speakers in the Humanities lectures are made possible with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York State Legislature, and through funds from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Students enrolled in Assistant Professor Lisa Elwood’s American Women’s History class read Wagner’s book, Sisters in Spirit, this semester and had the opportunity to attend the lecture.