Women and Social Movements, Notes on Contributors

I. Historians
Karen Anderson is Professor of History at the University of Arizona and her teaching and research focus on Women in the United States in the twentieth century. Her most recent book is Changing Woman: A History of Racial Ethnic Women in Modern America.
Barbara Babcock is Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Emerita at Stanford Law School. The first woman appointed to the regular faculty, as well as the first woman to hold an endowed chair and the first emerita, at Stanford Law School, Barbara Babcock is an expert in criminal and civil procedure. She is also known nationwide for her research into the history of women in the legal profession.
Carrie N. Baker is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of Women's Studies at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia. Dr. Baker has a J.D. and a Ph.D. in Women's Studies from Emory University. Her primary areas of research are women and law, public policy, and social movements. She is currently working on a manuscript, Sex, Power, and Politics: The Origins of Sexual Harassment Policy in the United States, which examines how a diverse group of activists shaped the development of U.S. sexual harassment law in the 1970s and 1980s.
Xiaolan Bao is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach. She is the author of Holding Up More than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment Workers in New York City, 1948-1992 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001).
Social historian Mary H. Blewett writes on workers and industrial change in New England in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is currently researching the social and transnational dimensions of the worsted industry in Yorkshire and Rhode Island and the role of the New England granite industry in building urban infrastructure in the 19th century. Her most recent book is Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000).
Victoria Brown is the author of The Education of Jane Addams: From Heroine to Democrat in the Gilded Age (University of Pennsylania Press, 2004). She edited Jane Addams's autobiography, Twenty Years at Hull House, for Bedford/ St. Martin's Press (1999) and has written several articles on Addams. Brown teaches modern U.S. History, U.S. Women's History, U.S. Immigration History and the Art of Biography at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.
Tamar Carroll is a historian of politics and gender in the post-WWII U.S. She recently completed her dissertation, "Grassroots Feminism: Direct Action Organizing and Coalition Building in New York City, 1955-1995," at the University of Michigan.
Catherine Clinton is the author and editor of over twenty books, including The Plantation Mistress (1982), Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War (1992), Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars (2000), and, most recently, Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom (2004).
Melissa Doak received her Ph.D. in U.S. Women's History at the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1999. She served as a post-doctoral fellow for the project in 1999-2000, and in July 2000 became the Associate Director of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at S.U.N.Y. Binghamton. She is currently working on a study of women's sexual misbehavior between the years 1890 and 1920 through an analysis of inmate experience at three New York City area psychiatric institutions.
Carol Faulkner earned her Ph.D. in U.S. Women's History at the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1998. In 1998-99 she was a Fellow in Historical Documentary Editing at the Lucretia Coffin Mott Correspondence Project at Pomona College. In Fall 1999 she joined the faculty of the History Department at the State University of New York at Geneseo. She is the author of Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Aid Movement (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003).
Jennifer Frost is Associate Professor of History at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, where she teaches courses in social, cultural, and women's history. She is the author of An Interracial Movement of the Poor: Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960's (New York University Press, 2001).
Nancy A. Hewitt is Professor of History and Women's & Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822-1872, and Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s, and editor of Companion to American Women's History. She is currently working on a biography of nineteenth-century abolitionist and feminist, Amy Post.
Sylvia D. Hoffert, a Professor of History at Texas A & M University, teaches courses in women's history, gender history, and women's studies. Her most recent book is a biography of nineteenth-century abolitionist and feminist Jane Grey Swisshelm.
Rebecca A. Hunt is a historian with a specialty in community and women's history and Visiting Assistant Professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver. She was a historical consultant for the PBS American Experience program One Woman, One Vote, on the national suffrage campaigns, that aired in February of 1995.
Kimberly A. Jarvis is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Doane College in Crete, NE. Her research interests focus on women's history and the history of the conservation movement in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States.
S. J. Kleinberg is Professor of American History at Brunel Business School, Brunel University, Uxbridge, England. Her most recent book is Widows and Orphans First: The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880-1939 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005).
Carol Lasser is Professor of History at Oberlin College. She is coeditor of Friends and Sisters: Letters between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846-1893 (University of Illinois, 1987), and has also written on coeducation, domestic service, gender ideology and antislavery activism. She is currently working on a history of race in nineteenth-century Oberlin, Ohio.
Kathleen A. Laughlin is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of Women's Work and Public Policy: A History of the Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, 1945-1970 (Boston : Northeastern University Press, 2000).
Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz is a graduate student at Indiana University where she specializes in nineteenth-century America and women's history . Her dissertation is focused on the women in abolitionist John Brown's family. She is exploring their involvement in antislavery work in the years leading up to Harpers Ferry, their subsequent ties to the abolitionist community, how they remembered Brown and worked to preserve his memory, and how they figured in the broader Reconstruction and Gilded Age American memory.
Tracy N. Leavelle is an Assistant Professor of History at Creighton University. He is completing a book manuscript that examines the nature of spiritual encounters between Catholic missionaries and American Indians in colonial North America.

Kriste Lindenmeyer is Associate Professor of American History at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of A Right to Childhood: The U.S. Children's Bureau and Child Welfare, 1912-1946 (Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1997). Her research and teaching interests focus on women's history and the history of childhood in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States.
James D. Livingston is a Senior Lecturer in Materials Science at MIT, and has published several articles on New York State history. He and his wife Sherry Penney have studied and written about the life of Martha Coffin Wright, one of the organizers of the 1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention (and Jim's great-great-grandmother).
Serena Mayeri is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University Pennsylvania Law School, where she teaches and writes about legal history, family law, and anti-discrimination law. She is currently at work on a book entitled, Reasoning from Race: Legal Feminism in the Civil Rights Era.
Judith N. McArthur is a member of the University of Houston-Victoria faculty, and co-author of Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics (Oxford University Press, 2003; paperback edition 2005). She is also the author of Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women's Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918 (University of Illinois Press, 1998).
Carole McCann is Director of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of Birth Control Politics in the United States, 1916-1945 (Cornell University Press, 1999). She is currently working on a follow up to that book, Birth Control, Eugenics and the Foundations of Demography, which examines gender and race in international population politics after 1945.
John McClymer is Professor of History at Assumption College in Worcester, Mass. He is the author of The Triangle Strike and Fire (Harcourt, Brace, 1998) and is the developer of numerous educational websites including the Worcester Women's History Project at http://www.wwhp.org/. The project includes a substantial online historical library at http://www.wwhp.org/Resources/.
Teresa Murphy is Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, with a primary interest is U.S. cultural history in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century. Important related interests are women's history and social history. She also maintains a broad interest in the field of American Studies as Associate Editor of the journal American Quarterly. She is the author of Ten Hours Labor: Religion, Reform and Gender in Early New England (1992).
Sylvie Murray is Professor of History at the University College of the Fraser Valley. She is the author of The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).
Kim Nielsen is Associate Professor of Social Change and Development at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, where she teaches courses in history and women's studies.
Katherine M.B. Osburn is Associate Professor of History at Tennessee Technological University. She is author of Southern Ute Women: Autonomy and Assimilation on the Reservation, 1885-1934 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998). Her current research focuses on the Mississippi Choctaw.
Beverly Wilson Palmer is the Editor of the Lucretia Coffin Mott Correspondence and teaches writing at Pomona College. Her published editorial work includes Selected Letters of Charles Sumner (1990) and Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens (1997, 1998).
Karen Pastorello graduated with a Ph.D. in American History from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2001. She is currently an associate professor of history at Tompkins Cortland Community College in Dryden, New York. She has published a number of articles concerning Bessie Abramowitz Hillman's labor activism and is now working on a full-length treatment of her life, including the broader participation of women in the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (forthcoming from University of Illinois Press).
Sherry H. Penney is the Sherry H. Penney Professor of Leadership at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she served as Chancellor from 1988 to 2000. She wrote the biography Patrican in Politics: Daniel Dewey Barnard of New York, and she and her husband Jim Livingston have studied and written about the life of Martha Coffin Wright.
Elisabeth I. Perry is Professor of History and holds the John Francis Bannon, S.J., Endowed Chair in History and American Studies at St. Louis University. She is the author of Belle Moskowitz: Feminine Politics and the Exercise of Power in the Age of Alfred E. Smith (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987; Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2000), among other works.
Ivette Rivera-Guisti earned her Ph.D. in History at SUNY Binghamton in 2003, completing a doctoral dissertation focusing on women and the tobacco industry in Puerto Rico in the twentieth century. She is an Assistant Professor in the History Department of Fordham University.
Benita Roth is an assistant professor of sociology and women's studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Her work focuses on gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality and class in social protest. She is currently working on a book-length project about the making of racial/ethnic feminist movements in the U.S. during the second wave.
Beth Salerno is Associate Professor of History at St. Anselm College. She is author of Sister Societies: Women’s Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America (2005). During the 2007-08 academic year she is serving as a Fulbright scholar in South Korea.
Patricia A. Schechter is associate professor of history at Portland State University. Her book, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930 (Chapel Hill) won the 2001 Sierra Book Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her family.
Harold L. Smith is a member of the University of Houston-Victoria faculty and co-author of Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics (Oxford University Press, 2003; paperback edition 2005). He is the author of several books, including The British Women's Suffrage Campaign, 1866-1928) (Longman, 1998; revised edition 2007).
Kirsten Swinth is a Magis Distinguished Professor of History at Fordham University. She is the author of Painting Professionals: Women Artists and the Development of Modern American Art, 1870-1930 (North Carolina, 2001). She is currently working on a cultural history of the "working mother" in the United States since 1965.
Cynthia Taylor received her Ph.D. in American Religious History from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Currently she is teaching in the History and Religion Departments at Dominican University of California.

Nancy C. Unger is Associate Professor of History, Women and Gender Studies, and Environmental Studies at Santa Clara University. Her extensive work on the La Follette family includes the prize-winning Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000). Her current book project is Beyond "Nature's Housekeepers": Gender and American Women in Environmental History.

II. Students of History
Lubna A. Alam graduated in May 2003 from Saint Louis University with a major in History. She plans to attend law school and pursue a career in public interest law.
Kari Amidon majored in History at SUNY Binghamton, graduating in 1999. She intends to pursue a Ph.D. degree in Women's History and teach at the college level.
Franchesca Arias graduated from SUNY Binghamton in May 2002. She intends to pursue graduate work in Clinical Psychology or School Psychology.
Helen Baker was an exchange student at SUNY Binghamton in the spring of 1998. She lives in Suffolk, England and completed her undergraduate studies at Lancaster University.
Gretchen Becht graduated from SUNY Binghamton in May 2000 where she majored in History. She is currently working as a Paralegal in New York City and plans to attend law school.
Kim Crandall Bowling completed this project while a graduate student in the M.A. program in Historical Studies at UMBC. This project is part of Kim's thesis examining Baltimore's YWCA during the 1920s and 1930s.
Rachel Brugger graduated from SUNY Binghamton in 2000 with a major in psychology and a minor in women's studies. She has worked as a domestic violence case manager with Safe Horizon in New York City, and with the domestic violence unit of a police precinct in Queens, New York. She completed a Master of Science in Social Work at Columbia University in 2004 and for two years worked as a school social worker in a Bronx High School where she specialized in the sexual health of teens and co-taught a unit on HIV/AIDS, STDS, and pregnancy. In 2007 she will begin work on a Master of Science in Nursing.
Maggie Campbell graduated from Grinnell College in May 2002 with a degree in History and English. She now lives and works in Marion, Iowa where she is the Managing Director of Campbell Steele Gallery and Liars Theatre.
Debora Carreras graduated from SUNY Binghamton in May 2001 with a major in Philosophy, Politics and Law. She plans to attend graduate school and pursue a career in public policy/public administration.
Leslie Burger Chomic is an independent historian with a special interest in women's history. She has been a book editor and curriculum developer and is the co-author of three nonfiction children's books. She recently completed a curriculum guide on International Humanitarian Law for the Red Cross.
Sara Creed is a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. History at New York University. Her reviews of works on legal history have appeared in the New York Law Journal.
Jennifer Cubic earned an M.A. in History from SUNY Binghamton, served as a graduate assistant for the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender, and is currently employed at the Center on Democratic Performance.
Taína Del Valle is a 2000 graduate of SUNY Binghamton, earning a B.A. in Women's Studies with a concentration in Multicultural Gender Studies. She intends to continue her education at the graduate level at the University of Puerto Rico.
Jill Dias is a 1997 graduate of SUNY Binghamton. She completed an M.A.T. degree in Social Studies at Binghamton in December 1998.
Deirdre Doherty is a 1998 graduate of SUNY Binghamton. Currently she is working in the library of A.T. Kearney, a management consulting firm in New York City, and is enrolled in a Master's degree program in Library and Information Science at Queen's College.
Greg Duffy is a 2001 graduate of SUNY Binghamton. He is currently a graduate student in the History and Law Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Scott Eckers is an undergraduate at SUNY Binghamton who maintains his own website at http://www.eckers.com.
Marcia Tremmel Goldstein is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Western and Women's History at the University of Colorado at Denver. She is the author and curator of "This Shall Be the Land for Women: The Struggle for Western Women's Suffrage: 1860-1920," an online exhibit for the Women of the West Museum.
Kerri Harney was a History and Spanish major at SUNY Binghamton who graduated in May 1999. She graduated from Cornell University Law School in 2002 and is a lawyer in New York City.
Anissa Harper received an M.A. in History from SUNY Binghamton in May 1999. She is a currently an editor at The Haworth Press.

Rebecca Hemzik has been teaching at Chenango Valley High School in Binghamton, New York for fifteen years and has worked for the New York State Education Department constructing documents-based questions for the 11th-grade Regents Examination in U.S. History and Government. She is working toward a Doctorate in Education at Binghamton University.
Kathleen Hoerger graduated from SUNY Binghamton with a major in Creative Writing and Comparative Literature and a minor in history.
Marian Horan is a Ph.D. student in U.S. Women's History at SUNY Binghamton. She served as a graduate assistant at the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender in 2001-2002.
Kristy Horaz graduated in May 2001 from SUNY Binghamton with a Political Science major.
Nicole Hunt graduated from SUNY Binghamton in May 1999 with a History major and a concentration in Women's Studies. She plans to continue graduate studies in some aspect of Women's Studies in the future.
Rebecca A. Hunt is a historian with a specialty in community and women's history and Visiting Assistant Professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver. She was a historical consultant for the PBS American Experience program One Woman, One Vote, on the national suffrage campaigns, that aired in February of 1995.
Dan Itzkowitz graduated from Grinnell College in 2002 with a degree in History. He now lives in his hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota.
Melissa Karetny graduated from SUNY Binghamton in May 2000.
Kathleen Kerr received an M.A. in History from SUNY Binghamton in 1994. She teaches American History and World Geography at Roseville (MN) Area High School.
Jeremy Klaff is a history teacher at Schreiber High School in Port Washington, NY. He is also a staff-developer on multi-media and powerpoint presentations in the classroom.
Michelle Kleehammer worked at the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at SUNY Binghamton in 2002-2003 and is currently a graduate student in History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Lauren Kryzak graduated from SUNY Binghamton in 2002. She majored in computer science and minored in psychology.
Chelsea Kuzma received an M.A. in History at SUNY Binghamton in 1999. She currently lives in San Francisco.
Eunice Lee graduated in May 2001. She majored in English with a minor in History.
Suzanne Lustig graduated from SUNY Binghamton in May 2002 with a B.A. in Art History. She entered the graduate program at NYU in Art History in the Fall of 2002.
Kathryn Martin graduated from SUNY Binghamton in 1998 with a B.A. in History. Currently she is pursuing a Masters degree in Elementary Education and Secondary Education with a focus on History.
Michelle Mioff was a project assistant in 1997-98 and currently lives in Pittsburgh.
Jenelle Mullen graduated from SUNY Binghamton in May 1999 with an English major and a minor in Women's Studies.
Claudia Occaso graduated from SUNY Binghamton in 1999 with a B.S. in Marketing and a minor in Italian Literature. She currently works for a marketing research firm in New York City.
Shannon O'Connor graduated from Grinnell College in May 2002 with a degree in History. She is taking one year off before entering graduate school. Currently, Shannon is working in a used and out-of-print bookstore and substitute teaching in Pittsburgh, Kansas.
Rebecca Park graduated from SUNY Binghamton in May 2002 majoring in History and minoring