Infinite Women

Dr. Gwendolyn Collaço, Anne S.K. Brown Curator for Military & Society at Brown University Library, to talk about both the namesake of her role, military historian Anne S.K. Brown, as well as art collector Adrienne Minassian. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr.-Gwendolyn-Collaco-on-Anne-S.K.-Brown-and-Adrienne-Minassian-transcript.pdf

Barbara Winslow, professor emerita in women and gender studies at Brooklyn College and founder and director emerita of the Shirley Chisholm Project of Brooklyn Women’s Activism , joins us to discuss the rise and fall of Roe v Wade and how the activist tactics used to gain American abortion rights decades ago can prove effective in protecting them today. Read the interview transcript: https://www.i...

Dr Deborah Hart, Head Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia, joins us to talk about Post-Impressionist painter Ethel Carrick. An exhibition of Carrick’s work is on display at the NGA through 27 April 2025, and the accompanying publication is available for purchase: nga.gov.au/exhibitions/ethel-carrick Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content...

Dr Marlene L. Daut, Professor of French and African-American Studies at Yale University and author of the new book, The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe , as well as Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution , joins us to tell the story of Marie-Louise, who was queen of Haiti from 1811 to 1820. More about The First and Last King of Ha...

Dr Maria Antico, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Image analysis at the Australian e-Health Research Centre and Adjunct Lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology, joins us for a chat about her scientific forebear, astrophysicist Margherita Hack, as well as her own research developing wearable ultrasound technology for use in space and here on Earth. Read the interview transcript: https:/...

Amy-Jane Humphries, PhD Student at the University of Liverpool, joins us to talk about the Hanoverian rise to the English throne, and royals like Caroline of Ansbach and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Amy-Jane-Humpries-on-the-Hanoverians-transcript.pdf

Kate Saccone, Project Manager and an editor for The Women Film Pioneers Project , tells us about some of the fascinating women of the silent film era and we delve into the reasons so many were lost to history and how some patterns persist even today in the film industry. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Kate-Saccone-on-the-lost-women-of-early-cinema-...

Dr Rebecca Edwards, Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia, joins us to talk about Australian potter and painter Anne Dangar. An exhibition of Dangar’s work, curated by Dr. Edwards, is on at the NGA through 27 April 2025: https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/anne-dangar/ Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Rebecca-Edwards-on-Anne-Danga...

Karen Valby is the author of the book The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History. Karlya Shelton-Benjamin is one of the titular dancers. The book is also a history of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, which shifted the national narrative of who could be a ballerina. Get the book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/71641...

Dr. Stevenson previously joined us to discuss women in the early years of Australian observatories, specifically in the context of the decades-long, international Astrographic Catalogue project. But as always, the more you dig, the more women’s stories you will uncover, so Dr Stevenson is back to tell us about women in Australian astronomy. Read the interview trancript: https://www.infinite-women....

Dr Josephine Browne, a Teaching Associate at Southern Cross University and recently a member of the executive of the Australian Women and Gender Studies Association, joins us to discuss author Mary Ward, her 1894 novel Marcella and the New Man/New Woman movement of that period. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Josephine-Browne-on-Mary-Ward-Marcella-a...

Serene Bennett Williams and Kristen Kelly, founders of Women's History in High School, join us to talk about their fight for increased women’s history representation in US schools, including a campaign for an AP course in Women's US History. Read more about their work at www.wapush.org Want to help? The campaign needs letters of support from college department heads and high schools across...

Deirdre Cannon, Assistant Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia, tells us about Australian artist Lindy Lee, and the solo exhibition of her work that is on now at the NGA through 1 June 2025. More about the installation: nga.gov.au/art-artists/sculpture-garden/lindylee-ouroboros/ More about the exhibition: nga.gov.au/exhibitions/lindylee Read the interview transcript: http...

Speaker and historian Dr. Surekha Davies, author of the upcoming book Humans: A Monstrous History, Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters, joins us to chat about the monstrous feminine in human history and how the traits we demonise in women become literal demons. More info: https://www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-monstrous-history Read the interview t...

Jude Berman is the author of the new novel The Vow, a fictionalized version of the life of 18th century painter Angelica Kauffman. More about the book: simonandschuster.com/books/The-Vow/Jude-Berman/9781647427887 Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Jude-Berman-on-Angelica-Kauffman-transcript.pdf Read more about Kauffman on the Infinite Women site: https...

Author Maria Vetrano tells us about her new novel Queen Bess: A Tudor Comes to Save America, a political fantasy that reimagines Elizabeth Tudor as a US presidential candidate in 2028. Buy the book: queen-bess.com Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Maria-Vetrano-and-her-time-travelling-Queen-Bess-transcript.pdf

Tamar Carroll, Chair of the Department of History at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the US joins us to talk about the history of the LAMBDA Network at the Kodak corporation, which was headquartered in Rochester. You can learn more about her work at lambdanetworkkodak.net Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Tamar-Carroll-on-the-LAMBDA-Network-a...

Historian and community impact strategist Dr Ramona Houston joins us to talk about telling African-American and Latina-American histories - why they don't get as much attention as they should and what can be done about this disparity. Read more about Dr. Houston and her work: http://ramonahouston.com/ Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Ramona-Ho...

Dr Alison Parker, History Department Chair and Richards Professor of American History at the University of Delaware, joins us to talk about the suffragist and civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell, the subject of Dr Parker's biography, Unceasing Militant . Get the book: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469684055/unceasing-militant-second-edition/ Read the interview transcript: https://www.inf...

Historian, author, and royal commentator Dr. Carolyn Harris, who teaches history at the University of Toronto, tells us about the fascinating female relatives of Peter the Great, who ruled Russia from 1682 until his death in 1725 as Tsar and later Emperor - including those who ruled before and after him. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Carolyn-Harri...

Karen Espinosa, a postgraduate student in Heritage Management at Bath Spa University in England, joins us to tell the story two women, one abbey and the Magna Carta, following a line from Ela of Salisbury, 3rd Countess of Salisbury in the 1200s to Matilda Talbot in the 1900s. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Karen-Espinosa-on-the-keepers-of-the-Magna...

Dr Lainie Anderson, author of the new book The Death of Dora Black, joins us to discuss the “complex and contradictory” story of Kate Cocks, South Australia’s first policewoman. Order the book: hachette.com.au/lainie-anderson/the-death-of-dora-black-a-petticoat-police-mystery Read a piece by Dr. Anderson about Kate Cocks on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/kate-cocks/...

Dr. Jennifer deWinter, dean of Lewis College of Science and Letters at the Illinois Institute of Technology, studies video game culture and joins us to talk about gendered issues and possible solutions in these spaces. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Jennifer-deWinter-on-Video-Game-Culture-transcript.pdf

Jessica Walters, Librarian with the State Library and Archives Service of Libraries Tasmania, joins us to talk about the island’s colonial convict women. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Jessica-Walters-on-Tasmanias-convict-women-transcript.pdf

Rachel Russell, a PhD Candidate in Theatre and Drama at Northwestern University, joins us to discuss choreographer, anthropologist and advocate for African dance Pearl Primus. Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Rachel-Russell-on-Pearl-Primus-transcript.pdf Read more about Pearl Primus on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/pea...