#98-01-13
For Release: 1-22-98
Contact: Peter Bailley


Anthropologist Alejandro Lugo
to Speak at Knox College Feb. 5

Alejandro Lugo, visiting assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois-Urbana, will present a lecture, "Men and the Aura of Authority in Feminist Anthropology: Lessons from the Assembly Line in Mexico's Maquiladoras" at 4 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 5 in the Common Room, Old Main at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Lugo is a cultural anthropologist who has studied feminism and political economics. He has conducted extensive research on maquiladoras, controversial industrial operations in Latin America that critics have characterized as sweat shops.

Lugo has a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college, located in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,100 students from 42 states and 33 nations. Knox's "Old Main," a National Historic Landmark, is the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.

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