Anderson, Christine
M. Christine, Anderson, "Gender, Class, and Culture: Women Secretarial and Clerical Workers in the United States, 1925-1955," 1986. Anderson is an Associate Professor of History at Xavier University. She has published articles The Journal of Women's History, Women's Studies International Forum, and Humanity and Society. In 2007 she was a Fulbright Roving Scholar in Norway, and she has served as Chair of Xavier's History Department, Director of Gender and Diversity Studies, and was co-founder and co-director of Xavier's Advocate Program for victims of sexual harassment.
Batinic, Jelena
"'Proud to have trod in men's footsteps:' Mobilizing Peasant Women into the Yugoslav Partisan Army in World War II," 2001. Batinic has already had her M.A. thesis from Women's Studies accepted for publication, and she is currently turning her thesis into an article. She was accepted into the Ph.D program at Stanford.
Berger, Jane
"When Hard Work Doesn't Pay: Gender and the Origins of the Urban Crisis in Baltimore, 1945-1985." 2007
Jane is currently Visiting Assistant Professor, Industrial and Labor Relations School, Cornell University. She held a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship in Women's Studies, and her dissertation won the Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize of the Organization of American Historians in 2009. She has published an article in International Labor and Working-Class History and a book chapter based on her dissertation research.
Booth, Louise
"Sisters and Scholars: Women at the Ohio State University, 1912-1926," 1987. Booth currently teaches at the secondary school level in England.
Boynton, Virginia
"'It surely is grand living your own life:' The Search for Autonomy of Urban Midwestern Black and White Working Class Women, 1920-1950," 1995. Ginny is Professor of History at Western Illinois University. She has published articles on Illinois and Ohio women's history in the Journal of Illinois History, Chicago History, Mid-America Historical Review, and Ohio History. She is guest editor of a special issue of the Illinois History Teacher on teaching about women and Illinois history.
Brown, Mary Jane
"'Eradicating this Evil:' American Women in the Anti-Lynching Movement 1892-1940," 1998. Mary Jane is a lecturer at Columbus State College. She published a revised version of her dissertation, under the same title, in 2000 with Garland Press.
Bucher, Greta L DR CIV USA USMA
Dr. Greta Bucher received her PhD from The Ohio State University in 1995 and is currently a Professor of History and Chief of the International Division of the History Department at the United States Military Academy, West Point, where she has been awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Department of History as well as two Faculty Development Research Grants. She has served on the executive committee and as president of the New York State of European Historians and serves on the advisory board for Teaching History. Her publications include Daily Life in Imperial Russia (Greenwood, 2008), Women, the Bureaucracy and Daily Life in Postwar Moscow (East European Monographs, 2006), "Stalinist Families: Motherhood, Fatherhood and Building the New Soviet Person," in The Making of Russian History: Society, Culture, and the Politics of Modern Russia. Essays in Honor of Allan K. Wildman, (Slavica, 2009), as well as essays and articles for Daily Life through History (ABC-CLIO), Exploring the European Past: Texts and Images (Thomson Learning Custom Publishing), The Human Tradition in Modern Russia (Scholarly Resources), and the Journal of Women's History. She is currently researching a monograph on women's healthcare in Russia from 1860-1990. Her scholarly interest has always centered on issues of gender and daily life, particularly focusing on how women negotiate the problems of modernizing societies infringing on traditional culture.
Carron, Jacki Della Rosa
I graduated with an MA in 2005. I taught for one year at Columbus School for Girls in Bexley, then I worked for the Ohio Department of Education for almost five years - first in the Department of Literacy and then the Office of Federal Programs. For the past three years I have been teaching at Columbus Academy in Gahanna. I married my husband, Nick in 2006, and we have two daughters, Janey and Evelyn. We live I Upper Arlington.
Clark-Wiltz, Meredith
I graduated from the program in 2011, and I began a tenure-track position at a small, private liberal arts institution, Franklin College, which is located in Franklin, IN, about 20 minutes south of Indianapolis. Currently, I serve as Chair of the History Department and Director of American Studies Program. In this position, I teach all of the courses in U.S. history, including U.S. Women's History and African American history, among others. I am advisor to Phi Alpha Theta and the Women's Studies house (a residential living community here), and I am working to develop a stronger women's studies program. I have also presented at the Teaching Professor's Conference (May 2013), participated in the Gilder Lehrman Institute's U.S. seminar at Stanford (July 2013), received a grant for an NEH and Gilder Lehrman-sponsored program, Created Equal, which promotes the study of civil rights and the Black freedom struggle in the U.S. Finally, I have published an article, "Persecuting Black Men and Gendering Jury Service: The Interplay between Gender and Race in the NAACP Jury Service Cases in the 1930s" in a collection of essays, Interconnections: Gender and Race in American History, edited by Carol Faulkner and Alison Parker and published by the University of Rochester Press in 2012.
Collinson, Anne
"Sex in Seventeen," 2001. Collinson is pursuing a Ph.D at Ohio State University and served as a managing editor of the Journal of Women's History.
Cofield, Alex
"Butch and Fem to ButchyFemme and FemmyButch: The Impact of Lesbian Feminism on the Construction of Butch and Fem Identities from the 1970s to the Present," 1996. Cofield is currently pursuing an M.A. in Public Administration.
Darrow, Sheila
(Antioch College), "It Takes More Than Ideology to Make a Movement: The WILPF, 1915-1922," 1990.
Freeman, Susan K
Dr. Susan Freeman is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at Western Michigan University. She studies and teaches about the historical construction of gender and sexual identity, with an emphasis on how feminist, LGBT, and other social justice movements have shaped popular perceptions of sexuality. Freeman is author of Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education in the 1940s and 1950s (University of Illinois Press, 2008) and has published articles and book chapters focused on lesbian and gay communities and activism. Prior to joining the faculty of Western Michigan University in 2010, Freeman taught at Minnesota State University, Mankato and Florida International University. Combining archival research and oral histories, her current research explores the beginnings of lesbian and gay studies classes starting in 1969. She is also coediting a book with Leila Rupp that guides high school and college teachers on how to incorporate queer content in their history courses.
Friedman, Andrea
"Feminist Pacifism during World War II: A Study of Ideology and Organization in the United States and Great Britain," 1984. Friedman won a grant from the Council of European Studies to support this research. She took her Ph.D at the University of Wisconsin and is currently an Assistant Professor at Washington University. Her first book is forthcoming.
Gilmore, Stephanie
"Rethinking the Liberal/Radical Divide: The National Organization for Women in Memphis, Columbus, and San Francisco, 1971-1982," 2005
Stephanie is assistant professor of women's studies at Dickinson University. Her article, "The Dynamics of Feminist Activism in Memphis, Tennessee: Rethinking the Liberal/Radical Divide," won the SAWH A. Elizabeth Taylor award for best article on southern women's history in 2003. She has published book chapters on NOW and second-wave feminism and edited Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States (University of Illinois Press, 2008).
Hegarty, Marilyn
"Patriots, Prostitutes, Patriotutes: The Mobilization and Control of Female Sexuality in the U.S. during World War II," 1998.
Lyn's articles and essays have appeared in various publications, including the Journal of Women's History; her book, Victory Girls, Khaki-Wackies, and Patriotutes: The Regulation of Female Sexuality During World War II was published by New York University Press in 2007. She taught for ten years as Senior Lecturer in the History Department at Ohio State University.
Hensley, Frances
"Change and Continuity in the American Woman's Movement, 18481930: A National and State Perspective," 1981. Hensley is currently a Professor of History and Dean at Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia.
Huber, Karen
"Sex and Its Consequences: Abortion, Infanticide, and Women's Reproductive Decision-Making in France, 1900-1940." 2007.
Karen is currently Assistant Professor of History at Wesleyan College in Georgia. As a graduate student she won several prestigious fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright Grant for dissertation research in France and a Bourse Chateaubriand Fellowship, awarded by the French government.
Jennings, Audra
Audra Jennings is Director of the Office of Scholar Development at Western Kentucky University, where she teaches honors seminars on the history of disability, medicine, and modern United States history. She received her Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 2008. Her current book project, Out of the Horrors of War: The Politics of (Dis)Ability in the Postwar United States (under contract with University of Pennsylvania Press), analyzes the ways in which the U.S. state at mid-century defined citizenship around notions of ablebodiedness by examining the American Federation of the Physically Handicapped, a national, cross-disability social movement organization that emerged during World War II. Her articles appear in The Politics of Veterans Policy: Federal Policies and Veterans in the Modern US, ed. Stephen R. Ortiz (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2012) and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas (November 2007). Jennings is the recipient of the 2013 Disability History Association Outstanding Article Award and the James Madison Prize from the Society for History in the Federal Government for her article "‘An Emblem of Distinction': The Politics of Disability Entitlement, 1940-1950," which appeared in The Politics of Veterans Policy. She also received the 2013 Citizens Award from the Student Government Association at Western Kentucky University for service to the university.
Jones, Cherisse R.
My book Crossing the Line: Women and Interracial Activism in South Carolina During and After World War II will be available from University Press of Florida in February 2014. I'm currently co-editing Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times which will be published by University of Georgia Press in 2015. I'm also working on a project on African American home demonstration agents in Arkansas and conducting research for an article on a Jewish couple who supported civil rights activism in South Carolina hopefully for publication in Southern Jewish History. I'm also assistant chair of the history department at Arkansas State University where I've been for the past ten years.
Kriebl, Karen
"From Bloomers to Flappers: The American Women's Dress Reform Movement, 1840-1920," 1998.Karen has published a book chapter and is currently teaching at Capitol University on Columbus, Ohio.
Lansley, Renee
I am currently a Visiting Lecturer at Framingham State University, where I teach modern U.S. history courses and African American history. I have also collaborated with Cengage Learning as a Subject Matter Expert in Twentieth Century U.S. history, and led both online and on-campus courses as a member of the Undergraduate Humanities Faculty at the University of Phoenix, Boston campuses.
Laughlin, Kathleen A.
Kathleen A. Laughlin, is Professor and Chair, Department of History, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, Minnesota. Her publications include the anthology Breaking the Wave: Women, Their Organizations and Feminism, 1945-1985 (with Jacqueline Castledine), New Directions in American History Series, Routledge Press, 2011; " ‘Our Defense Against Despair': The Progressive Politics of the National Council of Jewish Women after World War II," in A Jewish Feminine Mystique? Jewish Women in Postwar America (Rutgers University Press, 2010); Women's Work and Public Policy: A History of the Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, 1945-1970 (Northeastern University Press, 2000). Kathleen is currently writing a history of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, "Citizen Clubwoman: The Culture and Politics of Women's Clubs in Postwar America." Her next project is a history of university women's centers in the U.S. In 2012 she received the Faculty Excellence Award in the College of Arts and Sciences, Metropolitan State University.
Ledesma, Irene
"Unlikely Strikers: Mexican American Women's Strike Activity in Texas,1919-1977," 1992. Irene Ledesma won a dissertation fellowship at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and published a prizewinning article based on her dissertation. She held a position as an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas Pan American until her death in 1997.
Leone, Jan
"The Mission of Women's Colleges in an Era of Cultural Revolution, 1890-1930," 1989. Jan won a dissertation fellowship from the Spencer Foundation and is currently Professor of History at Middle Tennessee State University. She published "Integrating the American Association of University Women," in The Historian while a graduate student. Her ongoing research is on the interracial activities of Southern missionary women and the impact of the GI Bill.
Magnavite, Laura
"Continuities in Female RightWing Activism: The Case of the Ohio DAR, 19291950," 1992.
McCune, Mary
Mary McCune received her PhD in 2000. She began teaching at SUNY Oswego on a temporary basis in 2001 and on a tenure-track line in 2005, the same year her book, "The Whole Wide World, Without Limits": International Relief, Gender Politics and American Jewish Women, 1890-1930, appeared with Wayne State University Press. At SUNY Oswego, she has taught courses on American and European Women's History, Gender and War, and American Immigration & Ethnic History. She served as Acting Director of Women's Studies in 2002-2003 and recently returned to serve as Director of Women's Studies in January 2013. She is currently overseeing the transition of the program to Gender & Women's Studies and initiating major curricular reform in the program.
McDaniel, Cecily Barker
"Fearing I Shall Not Do My Duty to My Race if I Remain Silent": Law and Its Call to African American Women, 1872-1932," 2006. Cecily teaches women's history and black history at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro. She has published an essay on Edith Spurlock Sampson in Notable American Women.
Messinger, Penny
Penny Messinger, "Leading the Field of Mountain Work: The Conference of Southern Mountain Workers, 1913-1950," 1998. Messinger is currently Associate Professor of History at Daemen College.
Miller, Heather Lee
"The Teaming Brothel: Sex Acts, Desires, and Sexualities in the United States, 1870-1940," 2002. Heather has served as the humanities acquisitions editor for the Ohio State University Press and is currently a project historian with Historical Research Associates, Inc., a consulting firm based in Seattle. She has published articles and book reviews in The Journal of Women's History, The NWSA Journal and The Journal of the History of Sexuality.
Neumann, Caryn E.
Caryn E. Neumann is a Lecturer in Integrative Studies and an Affiliate in History at Miami University of Ohio at Middletown. At Miami since 2007, she has served as interim director of Integrative Studies but prefers the classroom. Her focus is cultural history and 20th century U.S. women's history. She has published "The Rise of Date Rape" in Kimberly Moffitt and Duncan Campell's The 1980s: A Critical and Transitional Decade as well as "Escaping the Christian Mystique: Church Women United and the Development of Christian Feminism" in Stephanie Gilmore's Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism. She has also authored three reference books: Latinos: This Day in History (ABC-CLIO, 2013), Sex Crimes: A Reference Book (ABC-CLIO, 2010), and Term Paper Resource Guide to African American History (Greenwood Press, 2009).
Nowak, Basia
"Serving Women and the State: The League of Women in Communist Poland," 2004 Basia won the Best Graduate Student Essay Award from Feminist Studies, which published her article "Constant Conversations: Agitators in the League of Women in Poland during the Stalinist Period" in 2005. She has served as managing editor of the Journal of Women's History and has taught women's history and U.S. history at Ohio State University-Newark.
Peterson, Anna
Anna Peterson graduated from OSU with fields in Comparative Women's History, Modern European History and Modern Japanese History in August 2013. My dissertation was on the development of maternity legislation in Norway at the turn of the twentieth century. I am now in a tenture-track job as an assistant professor of Modern European History at Luther College in Decorah, IA
Patterson, Lindsey
Lindsey is an assistant professor at Elmhurst College in Illinois. She is completing Accessing Citizenship: The Origins of the Movement for Civil Rights and Accessibility, 1950-1973. Her work on disability rights has been published in the Journal of Social History and The Journal of Women's History.
Pliley, Jessica
Jessica Pliley is an Assistant Professor of women's and gender history at Texas State University and holds a PhD from the Ohio State University. Additionally, she served as a visiting assistant professor and the inaugural Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Her book, Sexual Surveillance: How Policing Morality Helped to Build the FBI, will be published by Harvard University Press in autumn 2014 and joins a body of work that asserts that sex trafficking has long been an issue for activists of various traditions, yet it encourages us how anti-trafficking policies were ultimately implemented. Additionally, her articles have appeared in the Journal of Women's History and the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
Rake, Valerie Sanders
"'In the old days, they used scraps': Gender, Leisure, Commodification, and the Mythology of Quiltmaking, Wayne County, Ohio, 1915-1995," 2000. Valerie has published an article on quilt history and has taught at Ohio State University and Columbus State Community College. She is eLearning Consultant in the Office of Information Technology at Ohio State, assisting faculty to incorporate technology into their teaching.
Reid, Ann
nonthesis M.A., 1987.
Rhodes, Mary
"Dried Flowers: The History of Women's Culture at Cottey College, 18841965," 1981. Rhodes was a dean at Cottey College who came to Ohio State to complete her Ph.D. She later accepted a job developing historical software.
Robinson, Marsha
Marsha R. Robinson (PhD 2006) is a Visiting Assistant Professor of World History at Miami University - Middletown Regional Campus. She is the author of Matriarchy, Patriarchy and Imperial Security in Africa: Explaining Riots in Europe and Violence in Africa (Lexington Books, 2012). As the commissioning editor of the Inverting History with Microhistory series with Cambridge Scholars Publishing, she edited Women Who Belong: Claiming a Female's Right-Filled Place (2013); Purgatory between Kentucky and Canada: African Americans in Ohio (2013); and Lesser Civil Wars: Civilians Defining War and the Memory of War (2012). She has presented at several conferences including the African Studies Association, the Fourth Women in Africa and the African Diaspora Conference (Abuja, Nigeria), and the Islamic Resurgence in the Age of Globalization: Myth, Memory, Emotion Conference (Trondheim, Norway). Marsha also had the honor of serving on the Executive Council of the Ohio Academy of History. She is currently working on a history of economic development on the frontier between matriarchal and patriarchal societies, a topic she would not have attempted had it not been for the encouragement of faculty and fellow graduate students in Dulles and Towers Halls!
Rowe, Joyce
"'The Working Poor:' Single Mothers and the State, 1911-1970," 1993. Joyce has taught at the University of Texas, the University of Georgia, and the University of Alabama.
Wamsley, Sue E.
"A Hemisphere of Women: Latin American and U.S. Women in the Interamerican Commission of Women, 19281938," 1998. Wamsley has taught at Antioch College, Ohio Wesleyan, Ohio Dominican, Columbus State, Ohio State Lima, Otterbein College, Case Western Reserve University, and the University of Akron. She is currently an assistant professor at Kent State University-Salem. She has a book chapter in press and has presented at the American Historical Association and the Berkshire Conference.
Weber, Charlotte
"Making Common Cause?: Western and Middle Eastern Feminists in the International Women's Movement, 1911-1950," 2003. Charlotte received a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women's Studies and two Foreign Language and Area Studies Graduate Fellowships. She has published "Unveiling Scheherezade: Feminist Orientalism in the International Alliance of Women, 1911-1950" in Feminist Studies and a review essay in the Journal of Women's History. She has taught at Otterbein College and Ohio State University.
Weber, Shannon
"What's Wrong With Be[coming] Queer? Biological Determinism as Discursive Queer Hegemony," 2010. Weber's thesis was accepted for publication in Sexualities.
Weigand, Kathleen
"Vanguard of Women's Liberation: The Old Left and the Continuity of the Women's Movement in the United States, 19451970s." Weigand received a Presidential Fellowship and has taught at Smith College and held an appointment at the Sophia Smith Collection. Previously she has served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Hampshire College and Assistant Professor at Hartford College for Women. She is the author of Red Feminism, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
White, Kevin
"The Flapper's Boyfriend: The Revolution in Morals and the Emergence of Modern American Male Sexuality, 1910-1930," 1990.
In 1993, Kevin published The First Sexual Revolution with New York University Press. His second book, Sexual Liberation or Sexual License: The American Revolt Against Victorianism was published in 2000. He currently teaches at Portsmouth University and Sussex University in England.
Wilkey, Cynthia
"Womoon Rising: Feminist Spirituality and its Impact on the Modern Women's Movement in the United States," 1997. Wilkey is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. She previously held an appointment at Tennessee State University.
Yee, Shirley
" Black Women Abolitionists: A Study of Gender and Race in the American Anti-Slavery Movement, 1828-1860," 1987.
Shirley Yee is Professor and former Chair of Women Studies at the University of Washington. She published Black Women Abolitionists with the University of Tennessee Press and is currently completing her second book, provisionally entitled East Side Encounters: Cross-Cultural Relations on the Lower East Side of New York, 1870-1930. In 2000, Shirley Yee won the OSU College of Humanities Alumni Award of Distinction.