Fox-Genovese is the Elénore Raoul Professor of Humanities and Professor of History at Emory University, where she was the founding director of the Institute for Women's Studies. She was educated at Bryn Mawr College( BA) and Harvard University (MA, PhD). Her most recent publications include Reconstructing History: The Emergence of the Historical Society; "Feminism Is not the Story of My Life": How Elite Women's Movement Has Lost Touch With Women's Real Concerns; and Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South. She edits The Journal of the Historical Society, and is a member of the editorial board of Books & Culture First Things.
Genovese was most recently Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Universities Center in Georgia. Until 1990 he was at the University of Rochester and held positions as history professor and chair and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Science. He was educated at Brooklyn College (BA) and Columbia University (MA, PhD). His books include The Political Economy of Slavery: Studies in the Economy and Society of the Slave South; The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretation; and Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism, (with Fox-Genovese). Genovese served as president of the Organization for American Historians. He received the Bancroft Prize and The Frederick G. Meltzer Award for his book, Roll, Jordon, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, which was also selected by The New York Times as on of the 10 best books of the year.
Prior to the 8 p.m. talk, Hamilton faculty members who contributed essays will present a book written in his honor to Eugene Genovese. Slavery, Secession and Southern History, will be published this month by the University Press of Virginia. A reception and book signing will follow in the Levitt Center.
