Gregory Distinguished Lecture: Bryant Simon (Temple University)

Please join us for the Gregory Distinguished Lecture with Dr. Bryant Simon, entitled, "Disappearing Acts: Public Bathrooms and the Making of American Inequality."

Bryant Simon is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of History and 2020 recipient of Temple's  Great Teacher Award. He is the author of four books, three co-edited collections, and numerous essays and commentary in the Washington Post,  New Republic, the Root.com,  Christian Science Monitor,  Public Books, and the Philadelphia  Inquirer.  In addition, he has appeared as a talking head in documentaries about Starbucks, the history of American Food, blue jeans, the Jersey shore, Monopoly (the board game) and Alabama-based rock and roll band, the Drive-By Truckers.

Simon is an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Speaker, an elected member of the Society of the American Historians, and the outgoing President of the Southern Labor Studies Association.   He initiated and runs the History Department's graduate exchange with Erfurt University (Germany). Currently, Simon is working on a book about the history of the public bathroom in the United States to be published by the University of Chicago Press.

Simon is also the Academic of Chair of the University Honors Program at Temple University.