Seth Koven
Department of History, Rutgers University
"The Match Girl and the Heiress: Archival Love Stories"
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
4:30 PM
Plangere Writing Center
Murray Hall, Room 303
A buffet dinner will be served after the discussion.
Professor Seth Koven teaches in the Department of History at Rutgers
University. His research interests include the gender, social, economic,
and cultural history of Europe, 1750 to the present, with a particular
focus on Great Britain; modern European women's history; comparative urban
history; comparative cultural history and historiography; and the history
of sexuality. He has published on a variety of topics including the
history of gender and welfare states. His book, Slumming: Social and
Sexual Politics in Victorian London (Princeton University Press, 2004),
explores the relationship between eros and altruism in the shaping of
social welfare in modern Britain. Professor Koven is currently working on
two projects: "Christian Revolutionaries in Twentieth-Century Britain:
Peace, Poverty, and Global Citizenship," and "Archival Love Stories: The
Match Girl and the Heiress in Early Twentieth-Century Britain." The latter
project analyzes how and why historians love archives and the ways in
which archives shape the stories we tell about them and their creators. He
received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Reading materials are available in the Graduate Program Office (Murray 121B).
Contact: Sarah Kennedy (sarahmk@rci.rutgers.edu)
