Participant Info
- First Name
- Lisa
- Last Name
- Materson
- Country
- United States
- State
- CA California
- lgmaterson@ucdavis.edu
- Affiliation
- University of California at Davis
- Website URL
- http://www.lisamaterson.com
- Keywords
- U.S. Gender and Women, African American Women and Electoral Activism, Puerto Rico, women in Puerto Rican independence movement
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Lisa G. Materson is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Davis, and a specialist in U.S. women’s and gender history. Her work is focused on women’s involvement in social and political justice movements in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is the author of For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877–1932 (UNC 2009), and articles on Puerto Rican women’s independence activism and African American women’s internationalism. She is co-editor with Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor of The Oxford Handbook of American Women’s and Gender History (OUP, 2018) and is currently completing a manuscript entitled, “American Nationalist: Ruth Reynolds and the Struggle Against U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico,” which combines a feminist biography of Ruth Reynolds (1916-1989) with a microhistory of her multiple activist communities to examine the gendered and transnational history of the Puerto Rican independence movement.
- Recent Publications
Selected publications
The Oxford Handbook of American Women’s and Gender History, ed. with Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor (Oxford University Press, 2018).
For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009).
- Media Coverage
- CSPAN American History Interview: https://www.c-span.org/person/?114207
- Social Media
- @LMaterson
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Politics, Race, Women
