Hanna Holborn Gray, “Education and Utopia”
Whitley Auditorium, 6:30 p.m.
James P. Elder Lecture
Gray is a historian with special interests in humanism, political thought, and politics in the Renaissance and the Reformation. A Fulbright scholar with a doctorate from Harvard, she was the first woman to serve as provost at Yale University (1974-78) and the first female president of a major co-educational university, the University of Chicago (1978-1993). She has served on numerous nonprofit and corporate boards and holds 21 honorary degrees from universities throughout the United States, Britain and Canada.