Program Description
Event Description
Rediscover tales of Oklahoma's past in this exciting discussion series led by local Oklahoma Historians. Each week, we will rediscover a new aspect of Oklahoma history you probably didn't cover in your Oklahoma History classes.
This week's topic is This Land is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma presented by Chelsea Ball, Heather Clemmer, Sarah Eppler Janda, and Patti Loughlin
Presenter Bio:
Chelsea Ball is the director of the museum studies program and an assistant professor of history in the Department of History and Geography at the University of Central Oklahoma. She specializes in U.S. women's and gender history, the American West, and public history. Her work focuses on the debates over the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and feminism in the Western United States. Chelsea is currently working on a book manuscript titled West of Feminism: The Equal Rights Amendment Campaign in the American West, 1972-1982.
Heather Clemmer is Professor of History, Division Chair of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and General Education Director at Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma. She earned her PhD in History from the University of Oklahoma in 2008 with an emphasis on World War I and the West. She teaches Twentieth-Century American History, Oklahoma History, and Women's History. Dr. Clemmer served nine years as a member of the Oklahoma City Historic Preservation Commission and has worked with the Oklahoma County League of Women's Voter on research projects regarding notable women in Oklahoma history. She just received SNU's Wally Quanstrom Research Grant to continue her work on a manuscript on the life of Mattie Mallory, using her story to examine women's roles in the development of Oklahoma City.
Sarah Eppler Janda is Professor of History at Cameron University where she teaches a range of courses in US History as well as Oklahoma History. She has written multiple books on topics including Cameron University, student activism, Native American and Women’s History. She is co-editor of This Land is Herland Gendered Activism in Oklahoma, 1870s-2010s (University of Oklahoma Press, 2021) and is currently completing work with Patti Loughlin on a new Oklahoma history high school textbook.
Patti Loughlin is Professor of History at the University of Central Oklahoma and specializes in the North American West, Native American history, and women’s and gender history. She serves on the board of directors of the Oklahoma Historical Society and participates as a scholar in the Oklahoma Humanities Let’s Talk About It Oklahoma book discussion program. She coedited This Land is Herland with Sarah Eppler Janda. Currently, she is writing an Oklahoma history textbook for high school students with Sarah Janda, under contract with the University of Oklahoma Press.
This series is part of the Voices and Votes: Democracy in America exhibit.
Voices and Votes has been made possible in Bethany by the Oklahoma Humanities Council. Voices and Votes: Democracy in America is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and State Humanities Councils nationwide. It is based on an exhibition by the National Museum of American History. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.