WASM International Staff

    Kathryn Kish Sklar is Distinguished Professor of History and Co-Director of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is the author of Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 (1995), and other books and articles on women and social movements. Her first book, Catharine Beecher: A Study in American Domesticity(1973), analyzed how women reshaped gender identities and gender relationships in the antebellum era. She is currently completing a study of women and social movements in the Progressive era, 1900-1930.

    Thomas Dublin is Distinguished Professor of History and Co-Director of the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author or editor of eight books including Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860 (1979), winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Merle Curti Award. His latest book, The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century, explores the gendered dimensions of deindustrialization in the anthracite region of northeastern Pennsylvania since 1920 and received the 2006 Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians.

      Denise Ireton is a graduate student in U.S. History at the State University of New York at Binghamton and is serving as the project manager at the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender in 2010-2011.  She is completing a dissertation, “’Responsible to the Peoples of the World’: Activist Women, International Organizing, and Peace Efforts, 1920-1945.”

Carol Linskey is a graduate student in U.S. History at the State University of New York at Binghamton and is serving as a project coordinator at the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender. Her dissertation is entitled, “American Women’s Internationalism and the Work of Dorothy Kenyon, 1933-1955.”

        Jessica Frazier is a graduate student in U.S. History at the State University of New York at Binghamton and is serving as a project coordinator at the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender in 2010-2011. Her dissertation is entitled, “Cooperation with the Enemy:  Women Strike for Peace’s Collaboration with Vietnamese Women to End the War, 1961-1975.”