THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Jacinta Mann, Ph.D.
May 13, 1925 – February 12, 2017
“I look at myself as an academic feminist, who, in order to teach well, must keep in touch with what is happening all across the social scene.”
Statistician, seamstress, artist, professor, dean and former head of admissions at Seton Hill University. Served on Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh’s Commission for Women. The Sisters of Charity sponsored her attendance at the First International Conference for Women, in Mexico City, 1975. Delegate to the National Women’s Conference in Houston, 1977. Taught at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard, John Carroll University and Seton Hill. Chosen as the Continuing Education Association of Pennsylvania’s Outstanding Educator of the Year, 1991.
Photo. Dr. Jacinta Mann, circa 1970.
More About Jacinta:
- Obituary
- Archives
- Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill Archive
- Jacinta Mann, SC, letter, Sisters of Charity Community Newsletter, c. 1977, National Coalition of American Nuns Records 3/2, Marquette University Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by Jacinta Mann. Included in How Did Catholic Women Participate in the Rebirth of American Feminism?, by Mary Henold. (Binghamton, NY: State University of New York at Binghamton, 2005).
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 296