Department of History associate professor hosting Girl Scouts event focusing on women's suffrage

 

Melissa Estes Blair, Department of History associate professor, is hosting a Girl Scouts event focusing on women’s suffrage in honor of the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote. Blair is coordinating the Girl Scouts of Southern Alabama event, and it will be held on Feb. 15 at Pebble Hill.

The sessions will feature activities focused on different aspects of the women’s suffrage movement and projects on the topic. Blair will lead a question and answer about women in politics, and she will discuss African American women’s involvement in suffrage which will include Tuskegee resident and leading suffrage writer Adella Hunt Logan.

Blair teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in U.S. women’s history as well as undergraduate courses on 20th century grassroots politics and the senior thesis course for history majors. She supervises graduate students working on U.S. women’s history in any time period and serves on graduate committees for a variety of 20th century U.S. and southern history topics. Prior to joining the Auburn faculty in 2015, she taught for six years at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina.

For more information about Blair, go to https://cla.auburn.edu/history/people/faculty/faculty/melissa-blair/.