Participant Info
- First Name
- Sunu
- Last Name
- Kodumthara
- Country
- United States
- State
- OK Oklahoma
- Sunu.Kodumthara@swosu.edu
- Affiliation
- Southwestern Oklahoma State University
- Website URL
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- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
Dr. Sunu Kodumthara is a Professor of History at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, specializing in 20th-century U.S. History, women’s history, and the history of the American West. Her research focus has been on how anti-suffragists responded to the success of women’s suffrage in the American West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She has written articles for The Journal of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era and Oklahoma Humanities Magazine, and she’s been a featured guest on A Very OK Podcast, the podcast for The Oklahoma Historical Society. Currently, she is the Oklahoma state scholar for the upcoming traveling Smithsonian exhibit, “Voices and Votes: Democracy in America.”
- Recent Publications
“The Rhetorical and Visual Frontier of Woman’s Suffrage,” Review of Uprising: How Women Used the US West to Win the Right to Vote in Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era, November 2021.
“An ‘Intrepid Pioneer Leader:’ The A-Suffrage Gendered Activism of Kate Barnard,” This Land is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma, 1870s – 2010s, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021.
“‘The Right of Suffrage has been Thrust on Me:’ The Reluctant Suffragists of the American West,” The Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era, October 2020.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Presidents, Local & Regional, Politics, Women
