New York Times columnist and author Gail Collins will discuss American women’s history in 6 p.m. Thursday, March 5, in the Eynon Ballroom of the Chamberlain Student Center, 201 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro.
The free program is part of Rowan’s yearlong “Women Winning the Vote: Commemorating the Centennial of the 19th Amendment, 2019-2020″ series.
A book signing will follow Collins’ presentation.
Collins joined The New York Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board. She later was an op-ed columnist and in 2001 was appointed editorial page editor -- the first woman to hold that post at the paper.
In 2007, she stepped down to finish her book, “When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to Present.” She returned as a columnist in time to cover the 2008 presidential election. Today, she writes a twice-weekly column for the op-ed page.
Collins’s latest book is “No Stopping Us Now: A History of Older Women in America, " published last October.
Her other books include “America’s Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines”; “As Texas Goes . . .: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda”; and “Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity and American Politics.”
Collins started her journalism career in Connecticut, where she founded the Connecticut State News Bureau. She’s a graduate of Marquette University and the University of Massachusetts.
Collins’s appearance at Rowan is sponsored by the Office of the President, Department of History, Women’s & Gender Studies Program and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
For more information, call 856-256-4819.