As an Archivist/Special Collections Librarian and Historian, my work is focused on U.S.women and social movements in the 20th century. My areas of expertise include progressive era politics, suffrage, equal rights, peace movements, first and second wave feminisms.
Equal Rights Amendment
“How did the Civil Rights Movement Effect the Anti-War Movement during the Vietnam Era (with Nyle Monday), Library Instruction Cookbook (2009)
Human Rights
" How Did Florence Kitchelt Bring Together Social Feminists and Equal Rights Feminists to Reconfigure the Campaign for the ERA in the 1940s and 50s? (with Kathryn Kish Sklar) (2010)
In 1943 Florence Kitchelt joined the National Woman's Party (NWP) and organized an autonomous organization...
Primary Sources, Visual Literacy, Student Protests, Kent State
“How did the Civil Rights Movement Effect the Anti-War Movement during the Vietnam Era (with Nyle Monday), Library Instruction Cookbook (2009)
Jeannette Rankin, Sara Bard Field, Anne Martin
“Feminists Politicians”, Icons of the American West (2008)
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice (2007)
Suffrage
A Pocket of Quiet Persistence—In the Age of the Feminist Doldrums?: Florence Kitchelt and the Connecticut Committee for the Equal Rights Amendment, 1943-1961, Connecticut History (2006)
Carrie Chapman Catt, Mildred Olmsted, Dorothy Detzer
Biographies: Carrie Chapman Catt, Dorothy Detzer, and Mildred Olmsted, Women and War: An Encyclopedia (2006)
World War I, immigration, education, women
California Immigration in World War I, Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration into the American West (2006)
rape, slavery, sexual double standard
“Slavery” and “Sexual Double Standard, ”, Encyclopedia of Rape (2004)
progressive era, women, librarians, women's clubs
“Irrepressible Expansionists: Women Librarians in the West,”, Encyclopedia of Women in the American West (2003)
americanization
Educational Housekeepers: Americanization in California, 1900-1927, California History: A Topical Approach (2003)
domestic violence, divorce, rape, incest, children, San Diego
Unnatural Fathers and Vixen Daughters”: The Social and Legal Reform of Incest, San Diego, California, 1894, Journal of the West (2000)
divorce, California,
Divorce Western Style, ENCYCLOPEDIA: Law in the Western United States (2000)
Alice Paul, Florence Kitchelt, Dorothy Detzer
Treading Water in a Sea of Male Politicians—Women’s Organizations and Lobby Activities in Historical Perspective, 2006 Joint Annual Meeting of NAGARA, COSHRC, and SAA (2006)
strategic planning, digital, SLIS students
The Shifting Sands of Success: Digital Planning Case Study Utilizing Library Science/Archive Graduate Students, Society of California Archivists 37th Annual Meeting (2008)
feminist capital, Santa Clara County, San Jose, women and politics
Community Feminism and Politics; A Case Study of Santa Clara County as the Feminist Capital, 1975-2006, Oral History Association Meeting 41st Meeting (2007)
Alice Paul, Florence Kitchelt, Oral History, Suffrage
Challenges Documenting Early ERA Regional Leaders, Oral History Association, 39th Annual Meeting (2005)
oral history, women's history, historigraphy
What’s So Special About Women’s History; Next Steps facing Historians and Archivist Documenting Regional Women’s History, Society of American Archivists, New Orleans (2005)
Alexander Street Press Document Project
" How Did Florence Kitchelt Bring Together Social Feminists and Equal Rights Feminists to Reconfigure the Campaign for the ERA in the 1940s and 50s? (with Kathryn Kish Sklar) (2010)
In 1943 Florence Kitchelt joined the National Woman's Party (NWP) and organized an autonomous organization...
No subject area
The Local is Global: Broker for Human Rights “Florence Kitchelt, Connecticut Peace Activist and Feminist,” 1920-1961, 34th Annual Meeting of the Social Science and History Association (2009)
In this paper, I will explore the role of local peace activist and feminist, Florence...