FOUNDING DIRECTORS

Thomas Dublin	Kathryn Kish Sklar
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The Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender has promoted research and public programs in the field of U.S. Women’s History. Its variety of projects can be seen in the navigation bar to the left. With the retirements of Professor Dublin and Sklar, the Center’s website now provides online support for a major crowdsourcing project, The Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States.

Founded in 2001, the Center’s main activities focused on the construction of three online databases-- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (WASM), Women and Social Movements, International, and Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820. The International and Modern Empires databases were completed in 2012 and 2018 respectively. The WASM database and online journal continues to be published twice a year. Beginning in July 2024 the editorial office of WASM shifted to Portland State University and Professor Patricia Schechter has become WASM’s new editor. She can be reached at wasmeditor@pdx.edu

Professors Sklar and Dublin maintain active research and writing programs. Professor Sklar is completing a book focusing on the origins of state minimum wage laws, 1887-1938. Professor Dublin is directing the Online Biographical Dictionary project and is working on a study of Black women suffrage activists.