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For over twenty-five years, I have written about women’s activism.  I focus on a wide range of movements including feminist artists, the role of culture in women’s liberation, civil rights, women’s suffrage and peace activism. My first book explored motherhood and feminism online.  My more recent work involves digital history and digital humanities approaches to feminist activism, as well as explorations of gender in Wikipedia and the ethics of digital archives.

I sit on the American Historical Association’s Digital History Working Group and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Women’s Histoty. In the past I served as the digital history projects editor for Women and Social Movements and as a consultant for NITLE, the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education.    As a participant in the larger digital humanities community, I frequently consult and comment on digital humanities and the liberal arts, digital pedagogy, and digital history projects.

After receiving my doctorate in women’s history from the University of California at Los Angeles, I pursued an alternative academic career for six years, first as the assistant director of the women’s leadership program at Mount St Mary’s College in Los Angeles, where I also taught women’s studies and history, and then as the Director of the Women’s Center at William Paterson University of New Jersey, where I held a joint appointment as an assistant professor of history. I am now an associate professor of history at Rosemont College in Philadelphia where I also teach women’s and gender studies.

Recent Publications

• What Feminists Did the Last Time Abortion Was Illegal, Nursing Clio, December 14, 2021.

• Embracing Amateurs: Four Practices to Subvert Academic Gatekeeping.  Australian Feminist Studies, 36 (2021)

• “Digital Historical Practices,” Journal of Women’s History 33, no 2, Summer 2021.

• With Kent K. Chang, “Feminist Bestsellers:  A Digital History of 1970s Feminism” Journal of Cultural Analytics, April 20, 2021.

• “Roundtable on Ian Milligan, History in the Age of Abundance: How the Web is Transforming Historical Research American Historical Review, 125 no. 4  (2020): 1337–1346. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaa477.

• with Katherine Pettine and Home Smalley, “Stunts and Sensationalism: The Pennsylvania Progressive Era Campaign for Women’s Suffrage.” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies87, no. 4 (2020): 631-56. doi:10.5325/pennhistory.87.4.0631.

• The Endless Night of Wikipedia’s Notable Woman Problem, Boundary 2, August 2018.

• “Exceptionalism in Digital Humanities: Community, Collaboration, and Consensus” in Dorothy Kim and Jesse Stommel eds, Disrupting the Digital Humanities. (Punctum Books 2018).

• Revisiting “A Kind of Memo” from Casey Hayden and Mary King (1965), Women and Social Movements,  21, 1 (March 2017).

• The Endless Night of Wikipedia’s Notable Woman Problem, Boundary 2, August 2018.

• The Great War through Women's Eyes, Pennsylvania History, Vol. 84, No. 4 (Autumn 2017), pp. 452-461.

• Feminist Research Practices and Digital Archives, Australian Feminist Studies, Volume 32 (2017): 186-201.

• Network Analysis and Feminist Artists, Artlas Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 3, December 2017.

• “Till I’ve Done All That I Can” An Auxiliary Nurse’s Memories of World War I, Historical Reflexions/Réflexions Historique, 42,3 (December 2016): 71-90.

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United States

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United States

Expertise by Chronology

19th century, 20th century, 21st century

Expertise by Topic

Computational, Family, Gender, Libraries & Archives, Politics, Public History, Race, Sexuality, Women, World War I