Participant Info

First Name
Catherine
Last Name
Fosl
Affiliation
University of Louisville
Website URL
http://louisville.edu/wgs/faculty/fosl
Keywords
U.S. women, social movements, civil rights movement, oral history, U.S. South, race, LGBTQ,
Additional Contact Information
Also reachable at catefosl@gmail.com or via the University of Louisville Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research at 502-852-6142/ www.louisville.edu/braden

Personal Info

Photo
About Me
Recent Publications

Kentucky LGBTQ Historic Context Narrative,” principally authored by Fosl, with Daniel J. Vivian and Jonathan Coleman (accepted 2016; published 2017 by the National Park Service), available at https://www.nps.gov/articles/kentucky-statewide-lgbtq-historic-context-narrative.htm.

“Bring your Whole Self to the Work: Identity and Intersectionality in the Louisville LGBTQ Movement,” co-authored with Lara Kelland, Oral History Review 43, 1 (Winter/Spring 2016: 138-52.)

“It Could Be Dangerous!: Gay Liberation and Gay Marriage, Louisville, Kentucky, 1970,” Ohio Valley History 12,1 (Spring 2012), 45-64.

Freedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky, co-authored with Tracy E. K’Meyer (University Press of Kentucky, 2009).

Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South (Palgrave, 2002; University Press of Kentucky, Fall 2006).

 

 

 

Media Coverage
Women’s History Month feature (https://www.leoweekly.com/2017/03/six-views-civil-rights-fight-vs-now/), as well as op-Eds to the Courier-Journal, included one on Confederate monuments that got considerable exposure (https://www.courier-journal.com/story
Country Focus
U.S.
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
20th century
Expertise by Topic
Gender, Local & Regional, Race, Women