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First Name
Jessica
Last Name
Derleth
Country
United States
State
OR Oregon
Affiliation
Binghamton University
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Keywords
modern United States, social movements, political history, ephemera, popular culture, women's history, women's suffrage movement, gender norms, feminism, digital history, food history, sexuality, marriage, masculinity, race
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About Me

I earned a PhD in history from Binghamton University with specializations in the United States, women and gender, race, and colonialism/empire. I am especially passionate about historical and contemporary issues related to social movements and protest, food and consumerism, gender norms, race and immigration, and LGBTQIA+ and women’s rights. I strive to explore and advocate for these subjects through teaching, research, publishing, digital history, public service, and political activism.

Recent Publications

“‘Silence Forever the Slander’: Gender as Political Strategy in the American Woman Suffrage Movement” (PhD dissertation, Binghamton University, 2019).

“‘Kneading Politics’: Cookery and the American Woman Suffrage Movement,” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era17, no. 3 (July 2018): 450-474.

“‘These Model Families’: Romance, Marriage, and Family in the New York Woman Suffrage Movement,” in Votes for Women: Celebrating New York’s Suffrage Centennial, ed. Jennifer Lemark and Ashley Hopkins-Benton (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017).

  • Published in conjunction with the exhibit of the same name at the New York State Museum.

Regular contributor to and managing editor of Clio and the Contemporary, https://clioandthecontemporary.com.

  • “Saving Money for Resarch and Conference Trips,” August 23, 2019, https://clioandthecontemporary.com/2019/08/23/saving-money-for-research-and-conference-trips/
  • “The Shy Guide to Speaking Up: Grad Seminar Edition,” September 19, 2019, https://clioandthecontemporary.com/2019/09/19/the-shy-guide-to-speaking-up-grad-seminar-edition/
Media Coverage
Country Focus
United States
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Family, Food History, Gender, Material Culture, Politics, Race, Rebellion & Revolution, Sexuality, Women, World War I