Please join Professor Nancy Weiss Malkiel in conversation with John Bowers, the first event in a series to mark the 50th anniversary of women at Brasenose.

Nancy Weiss Malkiel, a scholar in 20th century American history, is professor of history, emeritus, at Princeton University. Professor Malkiel received a B.A. (1965) and an honorary degree (1997) from Smith College and an M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1970) from Harvard University.

Professor Malkiel is the author of “Keep the Damned Women Out”: The Struggle for Coeducation (Princeton University Press, 2016), a study of the cascade of decisions for coeducation at elite institutions of higher education in the period from 1969 through 1974 – in the United States as well as the first three men’s colleges at Cambridge in 1972, and the first five at Oxford in 1974. The book explores why these decisions occurred when they did, how these very traditional, conservative institutions came to embrace such significant change, and what happened when the women students arrived.

Professor Malkiel’s previous publications include, most recently, Changing the Game: William G. Bowen and the Challenges of American Higher Education (Princeton University Press, 2023), and, earlier (as Nancy J. Weiss), Whitney M. Young, Jr., and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Princeton University Press, 1989), Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR (Princeton University Press, 1983), and The National Urban League, 1910-1940 (Oxford University Press, 1974).