Mar 29
Lecture and Social with Professor Serena Zabin
Carls in the San Diego area
are invited to
How Does a Historian Catch Fish?
with Professor Serena Zabin
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Time
3:00-4:00 p.m. lecture and questions
4:00-5:00 p.m. social
Location
Serra Mesa-Kearny Mesa Library
Community Room
9005 Aero Drive
San Diego, CA 92123
Carls in the San Diego area are invited to a special lecture and reception with Professor Serena Zabin. She will talk about her work in the archives at Carleton and in California and share some stories from her new research project on an eighteenth-century letter writer, Mary Fish Noyes Silliman Dickinson.
Register by Wednesday, March 26.
Co-hosted by Suzanne Bacon '96, Chris Larson '89, and Heidi Yuen '89.
Serena Zabin is the Stephen R. Lewis Jr. Professor of History and the Liberal Arts at Carleton. Her research focuses on families, gender, and politics in the era of the American Revolution. She is the author of Dangerous Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York (Penn Press, 2009) and the prizewinning The Boston Massacre: A Family History (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020). At Carleton, she has served as the chair of the history department, the director of the American studies program, and the Broom Fellow for Public Scholarship. In that last role, she and her students crafted civic engagement projects in partnerships with public history organizations in Minnesota, Boston, and Washington, DC. In 2024–25 she was awarded the Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellowship in Early American History at the Huntington Library to work on her new research project, American Affections: The Life of Mary Fish Noyes Silliman Dickinson, 1736–1818.
Questions?
Contact Alumni Relations via email at alumni-office@carleton.edu or 800-729-2586.