The Oxford Handbook of American Women’s and Gender History (Oxford University Press, November 2018), edited by history faculty Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa G. Materson, boldly interprets the history of diverse women and how ideas about gender shaped their access to political and cultural power in North America over six centuries. In 29 chapters, leading scholars demonstrate the power of innovative research to excavate a history hidden in plain sight. 

Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor is a professor in the Department of History, her research investigates the social and cultural history of North American economies, with a special interest in gender, women, and money.  She is the author of multiple books and articles, and is currently completing a book on auctions and market culture. She is also Associate Dean for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars at UC Davis. In this role, she is an advocate for graduate students and postdocs, working with them and with faculty and staff to ensure success in their programs as scholars, researchers, and teachers.

Lisa G. Materson is a a professor in the Department of History and scholar of U.S. women’s and gender history. Her work is focused on women’s participation in social and political justice movements in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first book For the Freedom of Her Race: Black Women and Electoral Politics in Illinois, 1877-1932 analyzes African American women's involvement in southern, midwestern, and national politics in order to undermine institutionalized racism. Her new book Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico’s Independence works both as a biography and a study of the dynamics of allyship and outsider participation in the history of anti-colonial mobilization.

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