About the Speaker

Dr. Lindsey recently retired as Senior Lecturer at Washington University and is Professor Emerita at Maryville University.  She received her PHD in sociology from Case Western Reserve University and a later M.A. in education from St. Louis University. Her academic career is under a gender and intersectional umbrella, focusing on inequality, diversity, globalization, and health and society.

About the Topic

Dr. Lindsey’s presentation will spotlight the issues, challenges and resilience of Afghans as they resettled in St. Louis, and the specific issues faced by Muslim women caring for their families under the Russians, the Taliban, the Americans in Afghanistan, and now in the United States.