Contributors
- Contributors
Ann Taylor Allen received her undergraduate degree from Bryn Mawr College and her doctoral degree from Columbia University, and is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Louisville. She is the author of Satire and Society in Wilhelmine Germany (1984); Feminism and Motherhood in Germany, 1800–1914 (1991); Feminism and Motherhood in Western Europe, 1890–1970: The Maternal Dilemma (2005); Women in Twentieth-Century Europe (2008); and The Transatlantic Kindergarten: Women's Movements and Education in Germany and the United States (2017).
Melanie Beals Goan is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. She is originally from Erie, Pennsylvania, but has lived in Kentucky since 1994. She earned a B.A. in history from Slippery Rock University and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. Her research and teaching focus on twentieth century U. S. history, Kentucky history, gender, and the history of health care. She is the author of Mary Breckinridge: The Frontier Nursing Service and Rural Health in Appalachia (University of North Carolina Press, 2008). Her next book, A Simple Justice: Kentucky Women Fight for the Vote, will be published by the University Press of Kentucky this fall.
Randolph Hollingsworth is an independent scholar living in New Zealand. She has a B.A. in history from Vassar College; an M.A. in teaching from Colgate University; and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Kentucky. A native of Kentucky, she grew up in Scott County on a horse farm which still influences her outlook on life. She taught history for several decades and was most recently an Assistant Provost at the University of Kentucky. She is a co-founder of the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project and a moderator of H-Kentucky. She serves on the advisory group for the National Votes for Women Trail and is a board member for the Breaking the Bronze Ceiling campaign to build a monument to women's history in Lexington, and the Chronicle of African Americans in the Horse Industry, a project of the International Museum of the Horse. Her current research focuses on women's history within a global context.
Anya Jabour is Regents Professor of History at the University of Montana, where she teaches courses in U.S. women's history and the history of the American South. Her most recent book, the first full-length biography of an important Kentucky-born educator and reformer, is Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America (University of Illinois Press, 2019). [End Page 2]
