Jean Gimbel Lane Humanities Professor
The Jean Gimbel Lane Professor is invited to teach HUM 395-0 - Humanities Seminar. The Fall 2009 Professor is visiting scholar Cristina Lombardi-Diop.
Born in Rome and educated in Italy and the United States, Professor Lombardi-Diop has taught at the American University of Rome and the University of California-Berkeley. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Yale University in African and African American Studies and her Ph.D. is in Comparative Literature. As a faculty member she is committed to intercultural, interdisciplinary exchange and international education. This commitment is apparent in the intellectual range of her classes and in her publications. Her teaching and research interests include interrelated issues of gender, class and race in Italian cultural history, Italian colonial literature and culture, and the contemporary African diaspora in Italy. She is currently at work on a book on Italian Women in Colonial Africa in the period 1890-1942 and on a project on immigration in Rome.
The Jean Gimbel Lane Professorship was endowed in October 1996.
Donor Jean Gimbel Lane is a 1952 graduate of Northwestern University who majored in art history. Traditionally the professorship has been awarded to members of the Northwestern faculty. Starting in 2008-2009 the Jean Gimbel Lane Humanities Professor was awarded to a distinguished visiting professor (or professors).
For information or to submit suggestions, please contact S. Hollis Clayson.
