Former Events

• Events 2003/04
• Events 2004/05
• Events 2005/06
• Events 2007/08
• Events 2008/09
• Events 2009/10
• Events 2010/11

Events 2008 – 2009

Panelists: Nora Doyle (UNC Chapel Hill), Jocelyn Olcott (Duke University), Katy Smith (UNC Chapel Hill), and Heather Williams (UNC Chapel Hill).

Panelists: Marissa Fuentes (UNC Chapel Hill), Cynthia Greenlee (Duke University), and Erin Parish (Duke University).

Panelists: Laurent Dubois (Duke University), Kathleen DuVal (UNC Chapel Hill), and Elizabeth Shesko (Duke University).

Panelists: Joanne Hershfield (UNC-Chapel Hill), Jennifer Lynn (UNC Chapel Hill) and Willeke Sandler (Duke University).

Panelists: Bayo Hosley (Duke University), Rachel Martin (UNC Chapel Hill), and Laura Simms (UNC Chapel Hill).

Panelists: Sally Deutsch (Duke University), Michael Huner (UNC Chapel Hill), Michelle King (UNC Chapel Hill), and Paige Welch (Duke University).

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Events 2007 – 2008

Panelists: Jennifer Donnally (UNC Chapel Hill), David Palmer (UNC Chapel Hill), Robin Payne (UNC Chapel Hill), and Sarah Summers (UNC Chapel Hill).

Panelists: Enver Casimir (UNC Chapel Hill), Katherine Charron (NC State University), and Anna Krylova (Duke University).

Panelists: Emily Burrill (University of Kentucky), Laura Edwards (Duke University), Katherine French-Fuller (Duke University), and Lloyd Kramer (UNC Chapel Hill).

Panelists: Felicia Kornbluh (Duke University), Pam Lach (UNC Chapel Hill), Theda Purdue (UNC Chapel Hill), Pete Sigal (Duke University), and Jackie Whitt (UNC Chapel Hill).

Panelists: Marko Dumančić (UNC Chapel Hill), Claudia Koonz (Duke University), and Yasmine Saika (UNC Chapel Hill).

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Events 2005 – 2006

Panelists: Adrienne Davis (UNC Chapel Hill), Meg Devlin (UNC Chapel Hill), Jacquelyn Hall (UNC Chapel Hill), and Kelly Kennington (Duke University).

Panelists: Kelly Morrow (UNC Chapel Hill), Johanna Schoen (University of Iowa), Pete Sigal (Duke University), and Elizabeth Smith (UNC Chapel Hill).

Johanna Schoen, a former WGFH participant while in graduate school at UNC, now in the History Department at the University of Iowa, is the author of Choice & Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare.

Special thanks to the Duke History Department and Duke Institute of Critical U.S. Studies for co-sponsoring this event.

Panelists: Holly Brewer (NC State University), Chrissy Cortina (Duke University), and Barbara Harris (UNC Chapel Hill).

Panelists: Dirk Bönker (Duke University), Karen Hagemann (UNC Chapel Hill), Heather Marshall (Duke University), and Adriane Smith (UNC Chapel Hill).

Antoinette Burton is a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is author of numerous books that deal with gender, race, and empire. She gave the Anne Scott lecture at Duke for Women's History Month.

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Events 2004 – 2005

The theme for most of the year's sessions was "Intersections": the relationship between aspects of women's history, gender, and feminist theory and recent trends in other fields in history.

Panelists: Willoughby Anderson (Duke University), Meg Devlin (UNC Chapel Hill), Jacquelyn Hall (UNC Chapel Hill), Rhonda Jones (History, UNC Chapel Hill), and Barbara Lau (Duke University).

Panelists: Enver Casimir (UNC Chapel Hill), Pam Lach (UNC Chapel Hill), Gail Williams O'Brien (NC State University), and Annabel Wharton (Duke University).

Heidi Tinsman is associate professor of history and affiliate faculty in women's studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is author of, Partners in Conflict; The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973 (Duke, 2002), and is currently working on a new book about gender, authoritarian politics, and consumer culture in Chile and the United States during the 1970s and 1980s.

Panelists: Dana Brinson (UNC Chapel Hill), Kathleen Duval (UNC Chapel Hill), Linda Rupert (UNC Greensboro), Myra Struckmeyer (UNC Chapel Hill), and John Sweet (UNC Chapel Hill).

Panelists: Adrienne Davis (Duke University), Sally Deutsch (Duke University), Barb Hahn (Duke University), and Tom Rogers (UNC Charlotte).

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Events 2003 – 2004

Panelists: Judith Bennett (UNC Chapel Hill), Felicia Kornbluh (Duke University), Susan Pearson (UNC-Chapel Hill); and Daina Ramey-Berry (Michigan State University).

Panelists: Tina Campt (Women's Studies, Duke University), Theda Perdue (UNC Chapel Hill), and Blain Roberts (UNC Chapel Hill), and Caroline Winterer (San Diego State University).

Panelists: Esther Gabara (Duke University), Sylvia Hoffert (UNC Chapel Hill), and Diane Nelson (Duke University).

Panelists: Raphael Allen (Duke University Press). Holly Brewer (NC State University), Jerma Jackson (UNC Chapel Hill), and Ian Lekus (Duke University).

In honor of Women's History Month, Dr. Pam Scully, assistant professor of History at Denison College, was the guest at this research-in-progress workshop. Her interests focus on gender, race, and slave emancipation in the Atlantic World. She presented on issues raised in her paper, with group discussion to follow.

Panelists: Kathryn Burns (UNC Chapel Hill), Cynthia Herrup (Duke University), Anore Horton (Guildford College), and Noeleen McIvenna (Duke University).

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