author of Southern Ladies and Suffragists
10:10 AM on Saturday, October 24
Miki Pfeffer is a native of New Orleans and Visiting Scholar of History at Nichols State University in Thibodeaux, Louisiana. In her Eudora-Welty-Prize-winning study Southern Ladies and Suffragists: Julia Ward Right and Women's Rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair, she examines issues of gender and power as they played out at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair, where women from around the country gathered, including some of the leaders of the suffrage movement.
