A Herstory of Yale Divinity School: Women at YDS, 1907 - Today

Event time: 
Thursday, September 19, 2019 - 12:00am to Friday, December 20, 2019 - 12:00am
Location: 
Divinity School Library (SDQ) See map
409 Prospect St
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Women have been active participants throughout the history of Yale Divinity School. They first made vital contributions to YDS as the wives of faculty and students, and then later as faculty, staff, students, and mentors themselves. This exhibit celebrates the personal accomplishments and contributions of the women of YDS to the life and legacy of the school. It spotlights twelve “Trailblazers”: some of first women students, faculty, and administrators of Yale Divinity School. The exhibit opens with Lottie Genevieve Bishop and Ethel Zivley Rather, the first women documented to have taken a course at YDS, during the 1907 academic year. It then moves through to the contemporary period by highlighting the recent appointment of Sarah Birmingham Drummond, the first woman installed as Dean of Andover Newton Seminary, in September 2019. The exhibit also spotlights four notable moments in the “herstory” of Yale Divinity School: the construction of the women’s dormitory, the inter-seminary conferences, the establishment of the Women’s Center, and the liberation of the men’s room of the Divinity Library. This exhibit, located in the periodicals area on the first floor of the Divinity Library, is a preview of a larger exhibition the curators plan to install at the Divinity Library in February 2020.
Curated by: Elizabeth M. Peters and Christopher J. Anderson

Open to: 
undergraduate

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