Women in Combat: Women's History Month

As part of our focus on Women’s History during March, the Dickinson Museum Center will be hosting a lecture from the Larry Remele Memorial Fellowship program of the North Dakota Humanities Council. Dr. Christina Weber, one the 2008 Remele Fellows, will make a presentation at the Dickinson Museum Center on March 4, 2008, at 7:00 p.m.

In "Missing Voices: Women's Experience in War and Combat,” Dr. Christina Weber of NDSU’s department of sociology and anthropology will use in-depth interviews with women in North Dakota who have served in recent wars, including Vietnam and Iraq, to tell of the dangers and hardships women experience in war and the challenges they have with reintegrating into home and civilian life. Women have played (and continue to play) a significant role in war, largely as a result of the increasingly blurred boundaries between combat and combat support. Although there has been extensive public interest in men’s experiences of war, demonstrated by the myriad published biographies and memoirs of men’s experiences in the Vietnam War and numerous memoirs already emerging from male Iraqi War veterans, relatively little is known about women’s war experiences.

Christina D. Weber, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Dakota State University (NDSU). She earned her doctoral degree at the State University of New York—Buffalo in 2005 and began her position at NDSU in the fall of that year. Dr. Weber’s professional work ranges from research on the social impact of war to theoretical analyses of social inequality and social change. In her doctoral research, she examined the effects of the Vietnam War on children of Vietnam Veterans. Currently, she is collaborating with the North Dakota National Guard’s Family Program on a research project that explores institutional responses to war.

If you have any questions, please contact the museum center for more information at 701-456-6225 or info@dickinsonmuseumcenter.org. We hope to include women in our history all year long, but have an opportunity to take part in a national promotion effort for Women’s History Month in March. For more information visit: www.nwhp.org