Lily Geismer to present paper on “Doing Good: Public Policy and the Market”

Lily Geismer, Assistant Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College and Fellow in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, will present her paper, “Doing Good: Liberal Uses of the Market to Help the Poor from the War on Poverty through the Clinton Era” as part of the APHI’s seminar series. Please join us Wednesday, February 3 at Noon in room 504 of 226 Bay State Road.

Geismer is author of Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberalism and the Transformation of the Democratic Party (Princeton University Press, 2015) as well as “More Than Megachurches: Liberal Religion and Politics in the Suburbs” in eds., Preston, Schulman, and Zelizer, Faithful Republic: Religion and Politics in the 20th Century United States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). For more about Geismer, see her faculty page Here.