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2020 Conference Program Committee

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Program Committee - 2020 Big Berks Conference, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians

Co-Chairs

Cathleen Cahill, Penn State
Research area: American West, Gender, Race, Native America, Environment, Social History

Martha Few, Penn State
Latin America + Public Health

Committee Members

Clare Corbould, Deakin University
Early 20th century AfAM historical consciousness +activism

Myriam Cottias, CNRS, CIRESC, France
African enslavement, Martinique

Natanya Duncan, Lehigh University
Women in African Diaspora / and Caribbean Migration

Stephanie Evans, Clark Atlanta University
Black womens intellectual History + mental health

Cori Field, University of Virginia
Antebellum Black Girlhood

Kara French, Salisbury University
19th Century Catholicism

Keila Grinberg, Univerity of Rio
History of Brazil/teaching

Tiffany Hale, Barnard College
Indigenous religions and state power

Fatemeh Hosseini, Georgetown University
Gender & sexuality in the Middle East

Valerie Ann Johnson, Bennett College
Africana Womens Studies

Grace Sanders Johnson, University of Pennsylvania
Haitian Women, Modern Caribbean and Latin American History

Hilary Jones, Florida International University
Slavery, Africa, Hybridity

Cherisse Jones-Branch, Arkansas State University
20th century Women’s Interracial Activism in South Carolina

Mary Kelley, University of Michigan
19th Century women’s history

Hayang “Yumi” Kim, Johns Hopkins University
Modern Japan: cultural and social histories of psychiatry, medicine, folk culture, colonialism, and gender

Rosalyn Lapier, University of Montana
Environmental justice and indigenous religious history

Angela LeBlanc-Earnest, independent scholar
Black Panther Party

Sarah McDougall, CUNY Grad Center
European Legal, Social, and Family History, Gender Studies

Monica Mercado, Colgate University
Women, girlhood, and religion in 19th/20th century North America

Durba Mitra, Harvard University
History of sexuality, history of science and medicine, and women and gender in the colonial and postcolonial world

Jessica Pliley, Texas State University
Modern sexuality + sex trafficking + slavery

Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, Case Western Reserve University
Women and Fashion

J.T. Roane, University of Cincinnati
Geography + religion + blackness (Philadelphia)

Lauret Savoy, Mt. Holyoke College
American West; environmental history

Michelle Scott, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Black vaudeville theater circuit in the 1920s and 30s

Lorelle Semley, College of the Holy Cross
Modern West Africa, French imperialism, gender, and the Atlantic world

Lakisha Simmons, University of Michigan
Black Girlhood and New Orleans

Maboula Soumahoro, Universite Francois-Rabelais
Black Womens Intellectual History + religion

Marie Stango, California State University, Bakersfield
Gender, slavery, and emancipation in the United States and Atlantic World

Pamela Walker, Carleton University
Modern Britain, Religion, Gender

Tamara Walker, University of Toronto
Latin America, gender, slavery

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In Memoriam: Sandra Trudgen Dawson

Sandra Trudgen Dawson, historian of modern Britain, popular culture, medicine and women's health, a mother, a wife, and the executive administrator of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians passed away suddenly on May 18, 2024. A dear friend and lifeline to four cycles of the officers of the organization, Sandra is deeply missed as a colleague and friend to many Berks members. We invite you to share your memories and photos of Sandra as a member and key figure in the Berkshire Conference, as a teacher, a scholar and a friend. To share your … Read More >>

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Prizes

Two Women Fencing,. ca. 1885

The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians awards two annual book and article prizes in the following categories: A first book that deals substantially with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality. A first book in any field of history that does not focus on the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality. … Read More »

History

Group of women historians, early 20th century

The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians was founded in 1930 by Louise Fargo Brown of Vassar College and Louise Ropes Loomis of Wells College. Initially called the Lakeville History Group, after the Connecticut retreat where early meetings were held, the organization became the Berkshire Conference to reflect its new … Read More »

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