Contributors
- Contributors
shellie clark Shellie Clark is a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Rochester, with research fields in nineteenth-century women's history and nineteenth-century history of the family. Her dissertation focuses on Frances Adeline Seward, the wife of prominent nineteenth-century politician William "Henry" Seward. Clark has previously served as an adjunct professor in the Humanities Department at the Eastman School of Music and as a teaching assistant at both the University of Rochester and SUNY Brockport, and currently works in the Seward Family Digital Archive in the University of Rochester's Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation Department, transcribing and annotating the letters of the Seward family and friends and making them available on a public website.
gilbert l. gignac Gilbert L. Gignac was born in 1944 in Penetanguishene, Ontario, and attended Banff School of Fine Arts summer sessions in 1966, 1967, and 1968. He received his BFA in drawing/painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1972, after a year of independent study at the Brooklyn Museum Art School and Hunter College at City University of New York. Gignac received his master's in history of Canadian art from Concordia University, Montreal, in 1992. He taught drawing in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Ottawa in 1972–73. He was the collections manager of documentary art at Library and Archives Canada from 1974 to 2004. Gignac has an abiding interest in the shared history of visual culture between Canada and the United States. He has published on the work of William George Richardson Hind (1833–89) and is presently examining the work of Peter Rindisbacher (1806–34). He is also studying the uses of the camera lucida in nineteenth-century Canadian art and researching the portrait prints of Joseph Brant.
susan goodier Susan Goodier is an assistant professor of history at SUNY Oneonta. She studies women's activism, particularly woman suffrage activism, from 1840 to 1920. She earned a master's degree in gender history, a doctorate in public policy history, with subfields in international gender and culture and black women's studies, and a women's studies master's degree, all from the University at Albany. At SUNY Oneonta she teaches courses in women's history, New York State history, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and Progressivism.
Goodier is the coordinator for the Upstate New York Women's History Organization (UNYWHO). The University of Illinois published her first book, No Votes for Women: The New York State Anti-Suffrage Movement, in 2013. Her second book, coauthored with Karen Pastorello, is Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State (Three Hills, 2017). In addition to working on a biography of Louisa M. Jacobs, the daughter of Harriet Jacobs, author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, she is writing a manuscript on black women in the New York State suffrage movement
marguerite kearns Marguerite Kearns was raised in a family that valued equality, nonviolence, and the power of telling stories. She spent decades searching to understand her activist family's part in a much larger social and economic shift in the nation. In addition to being a freelance writer and family historian, she has been a teacher, a newspaper reporter and editor, and a Hudson River activist. Kearns writes about the joys and challenges of action and advocacy. Her award-winning blog, Suffrage Wagon News Channel, focuses on the early women's rights movement and the need to put a human face on American history.
The featured selection is from the memoir and family history An Unfinished Revolution: Edna Buckman Kearns and the Struggle for Women's Rights, which will be published by State University of New York Press in spring 2021. The work relies on research, family archives, photos, and memories spanning a lifetime.
stephen leccese Stephen Leccese is an independent scholar and educator with a PhD from Fordham University. He studies economic theory, reform, and policy in American history. His work has appeared in numerous popular and scholarly outlets, including the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era .
daniel macfarlane Daniel Macfarlane is an associate professor at Western Michigan University...
