Infinite Women

Serene Bennett Williams and Kristen Kelly, founders of Women's History in High School, join us to talk about their fight for increased women’s history representation in US schools, including a campaign for an AP course in Women's US History.Read more about their work at www.wapush.orgWant to help? The campaign needs letters of support from college department heads and high schools across the US - contact Serene and Kristen here if you can provide a letter or want to volunteer: www.wapush.org/contactRead the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Serene-Bennett-Williams-and-Kristen-Kelly-on-Womens-History-in-High-Schools-transcript.pdf

Deirdre Cannon, Assistant Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Australia, tells us about Australian artist Lindy Lee, and the solo exhibition of her work that is on now at the NGA through 1 June 2025. More about the installation: nga.gov.au/art-artists/sculpture-garden/lindylee-ouroboros/More about the exhibition: nga.gov.au/exhibitions/lindyleeRead the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Deirdre-Cannon-on-Lindy-Lee-transcript.pdf

Speaker and historian Dr. Surekha Davies, author of the upcoming book Humans: A Monstrous History, Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters, joins us to chat about the monstrous feminine in human history and how the traits we demonise in women become literal demons. More info: https://www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-monstrous-historyRead the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr.-Surekha-Davies-on-women-as-monstrous-transcript.pdf

Jude Berman is the author of the new novel The Vow, a fictionalized version of the life of 18th century painter Angelica Kauffman.More about the book: simonandschuster.com/books/The-Vow/Jude-Berman/9781647427887Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Jude-Berman-on-Angelica-Kauffman-transcript.pdfRead more about Kauffman on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/angelica-kauffman/

Author Maria Vetrano tells us about her new novel Queen Bess: A Tudor Comes to Save America, a political fantasy that reimagines Elizabeth Tudor as a US presidential candidate in 2028. Buy the book: queen-bess.comRead the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Maria-Vetrano-and-her-time-travelling-Queen-Bess-transcript.pdf

Tamar Carroll, Chair of the Department of History at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the US joins us to talk about the history of the LAMBDA Network at the Kodak corporation, which was headquartered in Rochester. You can learn more about her work at lambdanetworkkodak.netRead the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Tamar-Carroll-on-the-LAMBDA-Network-at-Kodak-transcript.pdf

Historian and community impact strategist Dr Ramona Houston joins us to talk about telling African-American and Latina-American histories - why they don't get as much attention as they should and what can be done about this disparity.Read more about Dr. Houston and her work: http://ramonahouston.com/Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Dr-Ramona-Houston-on-African-American-and-Latina-American-histories-transcript.pdf

Dr Alison Parker, History Department Chair and Richards Professor of American History at the University of Delaware, joins us to talk about the suffragist and civil rights activist Mary Church Terrell, the subject of Dr Parker's biography, Unceasing Militant. Get the book: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469684055/unceasing-militant-second-edition/Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Alison-Parker-on-Mary-Church-Terrell-transcript.pdfRead more about Mary Church Terrell on the Infinite Women site: https://www.infinite-women.com/women/mary-church-terrell/

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