Professor Pruitt delivers keynote address at Penn State

  • by Carla Meyer

On Nov. 1, Professor Lisa Pruitt delivered a keynote address titled “Why Rural? (or, On Being a Ruralist)” at the Rural Studies Graduate Student Conference at Pennsylvania State University.

Pruitt gave a lunchtime talk, titled “Reframing Whiteness,” that same day at Penn State Law.

Lisa R. Pruitt, Martin Luther King, Jr. professor at UC Davis School of Law, is a scholar whose recent work explores the legal relevance of rural spatiality, including how it inflects dimensions of gender, race, and ethnicity. Pruitt's work also considers rural-urban difference in transnational and international contexts.