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Joan Hedrick
Photo by John Marinelli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

JOAN HEDRICK<\/p>\n

In late September 1980, Trinity College hired Joan Hedrick to take over an experimental American cultures class after the instructor fell ill. Following her unexpected arrival, she decided to stay. \u201cI just felt so at home at Trinity,\u201d says Hedrick. \u201cI felt more comfortable here than I had at any other institution.\u201d Hedrick, now Charles A. Dana Professor of History, spearheaded the formation of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Program, an academic community that has helped make Trinity \u201chome\u201d to students ever since. William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in American Institutions and Values Robert Corber says Hedrick will be sorely missed upon her retirement in 2018. \u201cJoan has tirelessly dedicated herself to the important task of mentoring young women at Trinity,\u201d says Corber. In 1995, Hedrick was awarded the Pulitzer Prize; her biography Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life<\/em> was a 10-year project that she researched at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford. Hedrick, who earned an A.B. in English from Vassar College and a Ph.D. in American civilization from Brown University, is the author of two other books and more than a dozen articles. She has been featured in a PBS documentary about the abolition movement and has served on the boards of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Society. Hedrick says she was ecstatic to have had what she called the most exceptional \u201cWMGS 101: Women, Gender, and Sexuality\u201d class to date in the fall of 2016, her last semester of classroom teaching. She credits Angel B. P\u00e9rez, Trinity\u2019s vice president for enrollment and student success, and Venture Trinity, a pre-orientation program to promote women\u2019s leadership that she helped found in 2013, with bringing and supporting these incoming students. \u201cThey were so diverse, so thoughtful, so willing to listen to one another and to learn. We had the most nuanced discussions about race and sexuality and gender and power that I\u2019ve ever had with the students here at Trinity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note: \u201cTrinity Treasure\u201d highlights a person, place, or thing on campus that is just what the name implies: a Trinity treasure. Do you have an idea for what to showcase? Please send your suggestions to <\/em>sonya.adams@trincoll.edu<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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