Contact information
Name:
Mary A. Armstrong
Phone:
X 5992
Email:
armstrom@lafayette.edu
Categories:
When:
Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Where:
Oechsle 224
Presenter:
Professor Sara Grossman, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Bryn Mawr
Price:
Open to the Public
Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program Fall 2025 Bicentennial Event
In the 1850’s, Lafayette College’s Professor James Coffin was mathematical head of the Smithsonian Meteorological Project, the first settler-operated US weather data collection project. Sara Grossman’s research has uncovered a Lafayette-centered hidden history of (white) women in science and reveals that the data processing efforts associated with Lafayette were in fact largely performed by unrecognized women Easton school teachers. The College plays a pivotal role as both a scientific entry point and impediment for many of these women, who currently remain an unacknowledged part of Lafayette history. Grossman’s interdisciplinary lecture will focus on this hidden history and examine the ways gender shapes how the scientific labor of women is (not) recognized.
Sponsored by:
Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program; Hanson Center for Inclusive STEM Education