Scholar - Women Also Know History

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Keywords: Radio History, Women and Radio, Sound, Gender, Argentina, Uruguay, Border Radio, Voice, Vocal Gender, Women's Voices, Radio Preservation,

About Me: I am a Professor of History at the University of Louisville. I completed my Ph.D. in Latin American History at UCLA, and have been at the University of Louisville since 2001. I am interested in the intersections of women and gender history, the history of radio, and sound studies. More specifically, I am interested in what it meant (means) to hear women’s voices over the air, and the implications of vocal gender for constructions of citizenship. I am currently working on a study of radio and Uruguay-Argentine relations, with a focus on the “border broadcaster” Radio Colonia. I am also the Communications Director of the Radio Preservation Task Force, a federal task force affiliated with the Library of Congress.

Recent Publications: Radio and the Gendered Soundscape: Women and Broadcasting in Argentina and Uruguay, 1930-1950. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Paperback edition published October 2016.

“Teaching Radio History to Help Save It?: Listening, Radio Preservation, and the History Classroom.” Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Teaching with Primary Sources: Media Studies and the Archive, 2017.

“Radio Archives and Preservation in Latin America: A Preliminary Overview.” Journal of Radio and Audio Media: Vol. 23 No. 2 (2016), 381-388.

Blog essay, “Vocal Gender and the Gendered Soundscape.” Sounding Out!. Lead essay for forum on “Gendered Voices,” February 2015. http://soundstudiesblog.com/2015/02/02/vocal-gender-and-the-gendered-soundscape-at-the-intersection-of-gender-studies-and-sound-studies/

Media Coverage: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/11/02/were-losing-a-crucial-part-of-our-history-heres-how-to-save-it/?utm_term=.1f98c833967f