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Faculty Lecture Series: The Era of the Revolution - The Constitution and Stevens' Connections, Dr. Lindsey Swindall

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Sat, Oct 18, 2025

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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UCC Gallery, first floor

1 Castle Point Terrace, Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States

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As the 250th anniversary of the nation approaches, this lecture will explore some historical context of the Revolutionary era, some of the ideas in the Constitution and some connections between the Stevens family and the Constitution.

Where

UCC Gallery, first floor

1 Castle Point Terrace, Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States

Speakers

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Lindsey Swindall

Lindsey R. Swindall joined the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences in January 2015. She holds a B.A. in History from the University of South Carolina and Master's and Doctoral degrees in African American Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has written several books in the field of African American Studies including The Politics of Paul Robeson's Othello and Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art. Her book The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955 came out in paperback in 2019. She also co-edited a volume of historical documents on Food Studies called American Appetites and contributed a chapter on Michelle Obama's food reform to the volume Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop. Her writing has been published in academic and literary journals including James Baldwin ReviewNew Jersey StudiesTheatre Journal, The VolunteerLunch TicketLitro MagazineThe MacGuffin and Stevens own literary journal Palaver. She was selected to participate in the New Jersey Council for the Humanities Public Scholar program from 2017-19 which included facilitating discussions on race and U.S. history at venues across the state. In 2024, she received the Employee Recognition Award for Excellence in All We Do. She teaches HASS 103 and 105 as well as courses in U.S. History.

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