Episode 15: Einav Rabinovitch-Fox Builds Language Muscles

For this episode of Drafting the Past, Kate Carpenter interviewed historian and writer Dr. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox. In addition to teaching history at Case Western Reserve University, Dr. Rabinovitch-Fox has also worked as a public historian and curator, and regularly writes for public audiences in outlets like the Washington Post, Zocalo Public Square, and Nursing Clio. Her first book, Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism, came out in 2021 from the University of Illinois Press.

In this episode, we talk about both the challenges and advantages of writing in a language other than your first language, what it’s like to publish a book when you’re not on the tenure track, and why she spends a lot of time crawling on the floor when she’s editing.