From the Iroquois to Oz: the Upstate New York Legacy of Social Justice

Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner is the keynote speaker for the annual NYSPSA conference, being held by the Department of Political Science.  She is the executive director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, New York, and is a nationally recognized lecturer, author and performance interpreter of woman’s rights history.  One of the first women to receive a doctorate in the United States for work in women’s studies (UC Santa Cruz), and a founder of one of the country’s first college women’s studies programs, (CSU Sacramento). Dr. Wagner has taught in women’s studies for forty-three years. She currently serves as adjunct faculty in the Honors Program at Syracuse University.