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March 18, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Marti Hobbes, mhobbes@smith.edu

Author and American Studies Professor Dan Horowitz
to Present Katherine Asher Engel Lecture

NORTHAMPTON, Mass.-The 45th Annual Katherine Asher Engel Lecture will be presented by Daniel Horowitz, Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor in American Studies, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25, in Wright Hall Auditorium. Horowitz's talk, "Anxieties of Affluence in the United States at the End of the 20th Century," is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.


Horowitz, who is the director of Smith's American studies program, has taught United States intellectual history at Smith since joining the college's faculty in 1989. He majored in American studies as an undergraduate at Yale and then went on to earn his doctorate in history at Harvard. Before coming to Smith, he taught at Harvard University, Wellesley, Skidmore and Carleton Colleges, the University of Michigan and Scripps College.


His research focuses on how American writers have responded to affluence and consumer culture since the 1830s. So far, this interest has led him to publish several books, including "The Morality of Spending: Attitudes Toward the Consumer Society in America, 1875-1940" (1985) and "Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism" (1998). His forthcoming book, "The Anxieties of Affluence: Intellectuals and Consumer Culture in the U.S., 1939-1979," will be published later this year.


Each year a Smith College faculty member who has made significant contributions to his/her academic field is chosen from a list of nominees to be the Katherine Asher Engel Lecturer. Past honorees have included Newton Arvin, Thomas Mendenhall, Elliot Offner and Philip Reid.


The Engel Lecture is an endowed fund, established in 1958 by the National Council of Jewish Women in memory of its onetime president, Katherine Asher Engel, a 1920 graduate of Smith College.


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