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MEREDITH MILLER MEMORIAL LECTURE

Dr. Jeffrey and Mrs. Nancy Miller endowed the Meredith Miller Lecture series in memory of their daughter, Meredith, Princeton class of 1993, who was murdered during a carjacking in Arlington, Virginia in 1994.  Although Meredith had not been a women’s studies student, her parents wanted to honor her commitment to the political, economic, and social concerns of women by establishing this lecture as a regular part of our program.  In this way, they chose to mark their daughter’s memory in a public and communal manner and to remember her, not only for her intelligence and her accomplishments as a student, but for her dedication to the ideals of feminism, as well as those of racial and religious freedom.  Meredith Miller was the salutatorian of her high school class and graduated from Princeton with honors, majoring in Politics.  After graduating from Princeton, she began a graduate degree at the George Washington School of Political Management and worked for “Emily’s List” in Washington.  She dedicated herself to her own community in Tampa, Florida and, as a volunteer, committed herself to feminist and Jewish issues.  At the time of her death, she was preparing for a career devoted to the concerns of women.  With this endowment, her parents and her brother have sought to perpetuate her memory and her ideals. The Program's Meredith Miller Memorial Lectures have been an annual event since 1996.

Former Meredith Miller Memorial lecturers have been:

1996                      Donna Haraway
1997                      Martha Minow
1998                       Hazel Carby
1999                       Linda Gordon
2000                       Carol Gilligan
2001                       Mary Gordon
2002                       Barbara Ehrenreich
2003                       Susan Estrich
2004                       Gail Collins
2005                       Ellen Gallagher
2006                       Adrienne Rich
2007                       Nan Keohane
2008                       Toril Moi
2009                       Blanche Weisen Cook
2010                       Hon. Judith Kaye
2011                       Judith Butler
2012                       Saidiya Hartman
2013                       Anne Fausto-Sterling