Oxford Community Center Hosts Author Margaret Andersen Rosenfeld on “On Land and On Sea: A Century of Women”

On Thursday, April 14 at 7 p.m., the Oxford Community Center welcomes Margaret Andersen Rosenfeld to talk about her book, On Land and On Sea: A Century of Women in the Rosenfeld Collection.

The book is based on images from the Rosenfeld Collection, an extraordinary collection of maritime photography by renowned photographers Morris and Stanley Rosenfeld.For more than 100 years, they photographed the complete maritime experience including the finest racing yachts often during America’s Cup Races. Images are captured in a variety of formats, from glass plate negatives to color transparencies, and from glossy prints to photographic murals. The collection was acquired by the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut in 1984.

As the daughter-in-law of Stanley Rosenfeld and an expert in Women’s Studies, Andersen garnered unprecedented access to a collection that boasts close to one million images to weave the very important narrative for her book. It not only features images of the lives of women in the yachting world, but it also documents the lives of women as workers, caregivers and sportswomen.

“It was a daunting task to tackle one of the largest archives of maritime photographs in the United States,” says Andersen. “But, for me it was a joy to recognize the undeniable significance of women in this work. I’m looking forward to sharing these empowering images with the audience.”

Margaret Andersen Rosenfeld is the Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology at the University of Delaware where she holds faculty appointments in Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Black American Studies. She is the author of more than 30 academic books including: Thinking about Women, published in its tenth edition; the best-selling anthology, Race, Class and Gender (co-edited with Patricia Hill Collins; 9^th ed.), Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape(co-edited with Elizabeth Higginbotham; 4^th edition), Living Art: The Life of African American Art Collector Paul Jones; and, and numerous articles. She is currently completing a new book, Race in Society: The Enduring American Dilemma to be published in 2017.

At the University of Delaware, she has served in several senior administrative positions, including Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Diversity, Executive Director of the President’s Diversity Initiative, Interim Deputy Provost, and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, among others. She is a member of the National Advisory Board for Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and is the Past-Vice President of the American Sociological Association and Past President of the Eastern Sociological Society from which she received ESS Merit Award.

Andersen and her husband, Richard, have been sailing in the Oxford area since the mid-1990’s and now call Oxford home.

Oxford Community Center
200 Oxford Rd. Oxford, MD 21654
Thursday, April 14 at 7pm