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Samiha Peterson to deliver Honors Day address

By David Gonnerman '90
April 28, 2008

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St. Olaf Professor of Sociology Samiha Sidhom Peterson will deliver the address during this year's Honors Day celebration Friday, May 2, beginning at 10:10 a.m. in Boe Memorial Chapel. The event recognizes St. Olaf students who have a cumulative grade point average of 3.3 or above (on a 4.0 scale), students receiving special honors and senior students who are members of honor societies.

The 40-minute event, which is open to the public and which will be streamed live and archived online, will begin with a procession of faculty in academic regalia. After the event, scholarship donors and their student recipients will have the opportunity to meet one another during a special luncheon.

About Peterson
Peterson was born in Luxor, Egypt, in 1940. She grew up in Cairo and earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees from American University in Cairo. Peterson joined the St. Olaf faculty in 1972 after earning her Ph.D. in sociology/anthropology from the University of Minnesota.

Since 1989 Peterson has served as a special adviser to three Egyptian ministers of education, and since last year she has been a distinguished visiting professor at and senior consultant to American University in Cairo. She also has worked with the United Nations Council on Equality for Women and with UNICEF Egypt.

Peterson's professional interests include women and development, children's lives, international norms and their impact on social change, global interdependence and the role of technology for expediting change in the non-Western world. Her publications include the books The Liberation of Women: A Document in the History of Egyptian Feminism and The Two-Career Family: Issues and Alternatives and four more titles, plus more than 150 policy position papers and articles.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.