Alissa Franck, a graduate student from the NDSU history department, presented a paper at the eighth annual meeting of the Southern Association for Women Historians held June 4-6 in Columbia, S.C.

Franck's paper was titled “Eliza Pinckney: Agricultural Entrepreneur or Traditional Colonial Woman?” It was one of three papers in a session on women and labor in the early American South.

Franck also serves on the Southern Association for Women Historians Graduate Committee.