Infinite Women

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-Harris-on-Russias-Age-of-Empresses.pdfRead more about Catherine I and Sophia on the Infinite Women site.

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-Carta-transcript.pdf

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-mysteryRead a piece by Dr. Anderson about Kate Cocks on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/kate-cocks/Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr.-Lainie-Anderson-on-Kate-Cocks-transcript.pdf

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.pdfRead more about Pearl Primus on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/pearl-primus/

Dr Ellie Woodacre and Dr Amy Saunders join us from the University of Winchester to discuss modern depictions of historical queens in TV and film.Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Ellie-Woodacre-and-Amy-Saunders-on-Queens-on-Screens-transcript.pdf

Sarah Horowitz, Professor of History at Washington and Lee University and author of The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All joins us to discuss the scandalous life of Marguerite Steinheil.Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Sarah-Horowitz-on-Marguerite-Steinheil-transcript.pdf

Alexis J. Pedrick is director of digital engagement at the Science History Institute and director of Innate: How Science Invented the Myth of Race, a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded podcast and magazine project that explores the historical roots and persistent legacies of racism in American science and medicine. More about Innate: sciencehistory.org/about/projects-initiatives/innateListen to the Distillations podcast: sciencehistory.org/stories/distillations-podRead the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Alexis-Pedrick-on-medical-racism-transcript.pdf

Dr Rebecca Scales, an associate professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, joins us to talk about Red Cross nurse and polio survivor Ellen Poidatz, who founded France’s first residential rehabilitation facility for children and adolescents paralyzed by polio in 1919.Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Rebecca-Scales-on-Ellen-Helene-Poidatz-transcript.pdf