History, GWSS Professor Leslie Schwalm presenting work at international conference

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Leslie Schwalm
Leslie Schwalm

University of Iowa Professor Leslie Schwalm will present her research on “U.S. Slavery, Civil War, and the Emancipation of Motherhood” on Sept. 24 at an international conference.

The conference, “Enslaved Motherhood and Childlessness: Comparing Brazil with other Atlantic Slave Societies,” will be held at the Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil. The conference is sponsored by the Arts & Humanities Research Council of the UK, the University of Reading, Newcastle University, and the Universidade de São Paulo.

Schwalm, a historian of gender and race in the nineteenth-century U.S., is a professor with appointments in the Departments of History and Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies, both part of the UI College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.