Stephanie Coontz, an award-winning author and nationally recognized expert on gender, family and the media, will visit Northern Illinois University on Feb. 26, to deliver a set of lectures celebrating Women’s History Month.

Hosted by the NIU Women’s Studies Program, both events are free and open to the public.

Coontz’s seminar – “How to Talk to the Media About Your Scholarship (and Get Them to Listen)” – will take place from 10 to 11:15 a.m. in the Capitol Room South of the Holmes Student Center. The informal discussion will focus on how to get academic scholarship into the media and how to talk to the media about academic research.