On Friday, March 24, 2017, Dr. Patricia Shields was awarded the 2017 Outstanding Career Achievement award from the Women and Gender Research Collaborative, at their Century of Conflict: Dialogues on Women, Gender Intersectionality and Militarism 2017 symposium. Dr. Patricia Shields also delivered the morning keynote address at the Women and Gender Research Collaborative conference. The presentation “Jane Addams’s Peaceweaving: A Feminist Response to Paternalism, Militarism, and World War I” explored Jane Addams’ role in the women’s peace movement during WWI. Addams was the first American women to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
