- Roisida Aguilar (Visiting Faculty) teaches on the political science faculty of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, a country with a significantly underdeveloped historiography. She is one of a handful of people in the world who has published on Peruvian women’s suffrage. Relevant publications include Mujeres, familia y sociedad en la historia de América Latina, siglos XVIII-XXI. Lima: CENDOC-Mujer, 2006; Las elecciones de hace un siglo: la Junta Electoral Nacional de 1896-1912. Lima, Perú: Oficina Nacional de Procesos Electorales, Centro de Investigación Electoral, 2002; and “La ampliación del cuerpo electoral: Ciudadanía, sufragio femenino y experiencia parlamentaria, 1956-1962, Elecciones 2003:2 141.
- Guiomar Dueñas is Professor of History at Memphis and has published widely on Colombian women’s history. Colombian women’s history is also significantly underdeveloped. We are indeed fortunate that Dr. Dueñas, a prominent scholar on Colombian women’s history, has agreed to undertake original, primary research in order first to uncover, and then to promote the understanding of Colombian women’s suffrage history.
- Victoria González Rivera is Associate Professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University. Her numerous publications on Nicaraguan women’s history include the most sweeping and compelling history of the modern, pre-revolutionary era in print: Before the Revolution: Women’s Rights and Right-Wing Politics in Nicaragua, 1821-1979.
- Donna Guy retired from her position as Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Ohio State University in 2014. She has nevertheless continued publishing, mentoring students, and contributing mightily to the advancement of Latin American women’s history. Her work, which includes eleven books and more than fifty articles, lay the foundation for much of women’s history as we know it today, and has received innumerable prizes, fellowships, and grants.
- Ana Lau Jaiven is an academic feminist, researcher at the Autonomous Metropolitan University-Xochimilco Unit. She began the study and research of the Mexican feminist movements in 1980 and has investigated women in the Mexican Revolution, movements and groups of women throughout the history of Mexico in the twentieth century. Since 2001, she has been a research professor in the Department of Politics and Culture of the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities of the UAM-Xochimilco. On November 20, 2015, Ana Lau became the first historian to receive the Clementina Díaz and Ovando Prizes, awarded by the National Institute of Historical Studies of the Revolutions of Mexico (INEHRM) for her trajectory in social, cultural and cultural history. genre, an award created in 2013 and that had been declared void in its two previous issues.
- Asunción Lavrin is Professor Emeritus from Arizona State University. She has directed two NEH Summer Institutes and received two NEH research fellowships. Her publications, which number well over one hundred, have not only earned many prizes, but have now generated a book prize named after her. A pioneer in Latin American women’s history, she is one of the most cited authorities in the field.
- Corrine McConnaughy is Associate Professor in political science at George Washington University. Her recent book, The Woman Suffrage Movement in America: A Reassessment, provides not only a thorough reinterpretation of the history of women’s suffrage in the United States based on extensive use of local and state-level archives, but also articulates a framework for understanding the variables at play in making suffrage a reality in any political system.
- Claudia Montero teaches on the Humanities Faculty at the Universidad de Valparaiso in Chile and is a member of the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. She has published widely on Chilean feminist history and brings special expertise in women’s use of the press. A few examples include "El feminismo en debate: mortalidad, maternidad y puericultura.". Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos. no. 1; Cincuenta años de prensa de mujeres en Chile 1900-1950; and Textos en Contexto: discursos feministas en revistas feminista y su relación dialógica con los discursos sociales. Chile 1930-1939.
- Teresa Cristina de Novaes Marques is an historian at the Universidade de Brasilia in Brazil. In the relatively underdeveloped field of women’s suffrage history in Brazil, her research on suffragist Bertha Lutz is an important voice. She also brings important experience in digital history, having created the online, virtual museum Museu Bertha Lutz. Dr. Novaes’s first language is Portuguese, but she will communicate with institute faculty and participants in English.
- Erin O’Connor is Professor of History at Bridgewater State University. She is currently one of only a handful of people anywhere who can speak knowledgeable about Ecuadoran women’s history. Her books on gender, race, and nation in Latin American history, including Gender, Indian, Nation: The Contradictions of Making Ecuador, 1830-1925. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007, will enrich our discussions about the important intersections of these categories.
- Margaret Power is a professor of history at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is the author of Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power against Allende and co-editor of Right-Wing Women around the World and New Perspectives on the Transnational Right. She co-authored Hope in Hard Times. Norvelt and the Struggle for Community During the Great Depression. She is co-editor of the May 2017 special issue of Radical History Review on Puerto Rico. Her current research focuses on the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, about which she has published several articles. She is also president of the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center in Chicago.
- Eugenia Rodríguez-Sáenz is another senior scholar, Professor of History at the University of Costa Rica, where she currently serves as the Coordinator of the Research Program on Genders and Identities in Latin America. She is without doubt the foremost specialist alive today on Costa Rica women’s history; her many publications reflect work on other Central American countries as well. https://ucr.academia.edu/EugeniaRodr%C3%ADguezS%C3%A1enz
- Veronica Strong-Boag is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Colombia, former President of the Canadian Historical Association, and founding Director of UBC’s Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies. She has authored hundreds of publications on the history of women and gender in Canada, for which she has received more than twenty significant scholarly prizes and awards.
- Dawn Teele is the Janice and Julian Bers Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Teele’s research, which examines the causes and consequences of voting rights reform, forms of bias in politics, and social science methodology, has won several prizes and awards, including the Women and Politics Research Section's award for the best paper presented at the American Political Science Association Conference in 2016, and the Gabriel Almond Award for Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics from the APSA. Teele has published in a variety of academic journals, is the editor of a volume on field experiments (Yale University Press, 2014), and is finishing a book about the practical politics of women’s suffrage in Europe and the United States. Teele holds a BA in economics from Reed College and a PhD in political science from Yale University.
- Adriana Valobra is the director of the Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Género at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata, in Argentina. She is a leading specialist on women’s history in Argentina, having authored or edited seven books and some thirty articles on the subject. Her 2010 monograph Del hogar a las urnas is currently the leading text on the history of women’s suffrage in Argentina.
