Guest speaker to lecutre on female religious converts

Morgantown, W.Va., September 13, 2007: Dr. Eric Dursteler, associate professor of history at Brigham Young University, will visit campus this month to present a lecture on “Renegade Women: Gender, Conversion and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean.”

The talk will be Thursday, September 27 at 4 p.m. in the parlor of E. Moore Hall on WVU’s Downtown Campus. It is sponsored by the Department of History, the Center for Women’s Studies, and the Humanities Program, which are part of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at WVU.

Dr. Dursteler is the author of “Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity, and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean” (Johns Hopkins, 2006). He holds a BA from Brigham Young University (BYU), MA degrees from BYU and Brown University, and a Ph.D. from Brown University.

For more information, please contact Dr. Matt Vester, Department of History, at 304-293-2421, ext. 5232, or at Matt.Vester@mail.wvu.edu.

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