‘First Woman to Run for President’ Continues Faculty Colloquia Series

graphic showing a portrait of a woman

More than 150 years before Vice President Kamala Harris’s nomination, Victoria Woodhull became the first woman to run for president of the United States. On Oct. 3, Associate Professor Allison Lange will talk all about it.  

Wentworth Institute of Technology’s second event of the Faculty Colloquia series takes place with Lange presenting on “Victoria Woodhull: The First Woman to Run for President.” An associate professor of History in the School of Sciences and Humanities, Lange is a historian who explores the stories that images tell about the intersection of gender and power in US history. She has published work in numerous publications including a recent piece for Time magazine.  

Running on behalf of the Equal Rights Party in 1872, Victoria Woodhull advocated for the rights of women and Black Americans during this post-Civil War era. Before her nomination, Woodhull was the first female stockbroker, first female editor of a weekly newspaper, and first woman to address Congress in favor of women’s voting rights. She promoted sexual freedom for men and women as well as birth control, and for these ideas she was arrested and spent election day in jail. 

The colloquium takes place Thursday, October 3rd at 12:00 noon in Beatty 426. Refreshments will be provided.   

The Faculty Colloquia Series is scheduled for the first Thursdays of each month.  Hollis Greenberg, associate professor of Business Management in the School of Business, kicked off the series on September 12. 

Upcoming events include: 

  • November 7- Maura Mulligan- Supporting Student Wellbeing in the Classroom 

  • January 9- Rick Trilling- Cybersecurity Management 

  • February 6- Steve Morrow and Mark Mixer- Collaborating on a publication, “Two Famous Matching Problems And the Solution to a Related Tennis Pairings Problem” 

  • March 13- Saurav Basnet- Presenting Research on Developing Countries 

  • April 3- Hossein Noorian- “How to make Wentworth students more competitive and resilient for the job market and for academic competitions”