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WVU to host lecture about female religious converts Sept. 27
History scholar and author Eric Dursteler will discuss women religious converts at 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 27, at West Virginia University.
Dursteler is an associate professor of history at Brigham Young University.
His lecture, “Renegade Women: Gender, Conversion and Identity in the Early Modern Mediterranean”, will take place in the parlor of E. Moore Hall on the WVU Downtown Campus.
The event is sponsored by the WVU Department of History, the Center for Women’s Studies and the Humanities Program, all of which are part of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.
He is the author of “Venetians in Constantinople: Nation, Identity and Coexistence in the Early Modern Mediterranean” (Johns Hopkins, 2006).
Dursteler holds a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University (BYU), master’s degrees from BYU and Brown University and a doctorate from Brown.
For more information, contact Matt Vester, WVU Department of History, at 304-293-2421, ext. 5232 or Matt.Vester@mail.wvu.edu.