Recent Scholarship

How Sex Became a Civil Liberty by Leigh Ann Wheeler (Oxford University Press, 2012). Wheeler was a recipient of the SSC's Travel-To-Collections grant in 2007-08 and her research made use of the following collections: Ames Family Papers; Dorothy Kenyon Papers; Harriet Pilpel Papers; Planned Parenthood Federation of America Records; Madeleine Doty Papers; Margaret Sanger Papers; and the Women's Rights Collection.

Cold War Progressives: Women's Interracial Organizing For Peace and Freedom by Jacqueline Castledine (University of Illinois Press, 2012). Jacqueline was a recipient of our Bain Fellowship in 2004-05. Collections she used in her research include: Mary van Kleeck Papers, Jessie Lloyd O'Connor Papers, and the Communism, Socialism, and Left-Wing Politics Collection, among others.

Funded Scholars, 2012-13

Funded Scholars receive awards intended to support research visits of four to six weeks, and give a work-in-progress colloquium to the Smith College community during their residency. More information.

Bain Fellowships

Sarah Lynn Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

PhD dissertation: "Rhetorical Peace-building Strategies: Organizing the Global and Local through the International Women's Tribune Centre"

Lisa Levenstein, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

"U.S. Women in Beijing: The Fourth World Conference on Women and the Global Politics of American Feminism"

Grierson Fellowships

Travel funds

Victoria M. Grieve, Utah State University

"Radical Women and Working Class Journalism, The Federated Press, 1928-1955"

Joan Marie Johnson, Northeastern Illinois University

"Funding Feminism: Wealthy Women, Philanthropy, and Power in Late 19th and 20th Century America"

Wendy Kline, University of Cincinnati

"Birth in Transition: Modern Midwifery and the Controversy over Home Birth"

Melissa Walker, Converse College

"'The Heyday of Woman's Life': Women and the Experience of Aging in Twentieth Century America"

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