St. Francis College welcomed Katharine Lee (Rutgers University)on March 20, 2018 to talk about The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society & Women's Reform Movements as part of the Spring 2018 Senior Citizen Lecture Series, "From New Nation to World Power: Culture, Politics, and Society in the United States, 1789-1896."

(Learn about Philadelphia's Female Anti-Slavery Movement)

Katharine Lee holds a Ph.D. in History from Rutgers University. Her dissertation is titled "'The Young Women Here Enjoy a Liberty': Philadelphia Women and the Public Sphere, 1760s-1840s. She teaches in the Rutgers University Department of History, the Douglass Residential College, and the Rutgers Honors College.

Speakers for the series, From New Nation to World Power, are programmed by History Professor Sara Rzeszutek.