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March 18, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Marti Hobbes, mhobbes@smith.edu
Author and American Studies
Professor Dan Horowitz
to Present Katherine Asher Engel Lecture
NORTHAMPTON, Mass.-The 45th Annual
Katherine Asher Engel Lecture will be presented by Daniel Horowitz,
Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor in American Studies, at 5 p.m.
on Tuesday, March 25, in Wright Hall Auditorium. Horowitz's talk,
"Anxieties of Affluence in the United States at the End
of the 20th Century," is free, open to the public and wheelchair
accessible.
Horowitz, who is the director of Smith's American studies program,
has taught United States intellectual history at Smith since
joining the college's faculty in 1989. He majored in American
studies as an undergraduate at Yale and then went on to earn
his doctorate in history at Harvard. Before coming to Smith,
he taught at Harvard University, Wellesley, Skidmore and Carleton
Colleges, the University of Michigan and Scripps College.
His research focuses on how American writers have responded to
affluence and consumer culture since the 1830s. So far, this
interest has led him to publish several books, including "The
Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in
America, 1875-1940" (1985) and "Betty Friedan and the
Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold
War, and Modern Feminism" (1998). His forthcoming book,
"The Anxieties of Affluence: Intellectuals and Consumer
Culture in the U.S., 1939-1979," will be published later
this year.
Each year a Smith College faculty member who has made significant
contributions to his/her academic field is chosen from a list
of nominees to be the Katherine Asher Engel Lecturer. Past honorees
have included Newton Arvin, Thomas Mendenhall, Elliot Offner
and Philip Reid.
The Engel Lecture is an endowed fund, established in 1958 by
the National Council of Jewish Women in memory of its onetime
president, Katherine Asher Engel, a 1920 graduate of Smith College.
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