Professor Pruitt Keynotes Rural West Initiative Conference
Professor Lisa R. Pruitt delivered the keynote address at the Fourth Annual Eccles Family Rural West Conference. Titled "People and Place in the Rural American West," the event was held in Missoula, Montana on March 17-19. The conference was co-sponsored by Stanford University's Bill Lane Center for the American West and the University of Montana.
Professor Pruitt's talk was titled "On Being (and Doing) Rural in Metro-Centric Times." Also delivering a keynote address at the conference was Montana Governor Steve Bullock.
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.