Artists and Speakers Series

Ohio State University professor Judy Tzu-Chun Wu discusses changing U.S. social norms of race, gender and sexuality by considering the remarkable life of Margaret Jessie Chung (1889-1959), the first American-born Chinese female physician.

Wu is a professor of history and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Ohio State. She co-edits Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies and is the author of Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity (UC Press, 2005) and Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era (Cornell UP, 2013). She is currently collaborating on a political biography of Rep. Patsy Takemoto Mink, co-sponsor of Title IX legislation and the first woman of color elected to Congress.

Admission is free and reservations are not required. Sponsored by the History Department, the Phi Alpha Theta honor society, the Artists and Speakers Series, the Asian Studies minor, the Center for Equality and Justice, and the President's Diversity Council.