Prominent feminist delivers lecture at OU

One of Canada’s foremost feminist scholars, Dorothy Smith, will deliver a lecture titled "Rewriting Sociology from a Women’s Standpoint," at 7:30 tonight in 111 Scripps Hall.

Smith is a professor in the department of sociology and equity studies at the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, according to a news release. She is a distinguished feminist theorist in the social sciences and the author of several books, including her most recent, Writing the Social.

In 1999 she received the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Scholarly Career Award.

The lecture is sponsored by Ohio University’s College of Education, department of sociology and anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Kennedy Lecture Committee's Interpersonal Communications Department, political science department, and the women’s studies department. Admission is free.

— Liz Shirey