Infinite Women

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

Juanita Simmonds, the inaugural Christina Boughen OAM Fellow through the State Library of Queensland, joins us to talk about the fellowship's namesake and her career as a musician in 20th-century Queensland.Read more about the State Library of Queensland: https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/Read more about the Queensland Memory Awards: https://www.slq.qld.gov.au/get-involved/awards-and-fellowships/queensland-memory-awardsRead the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Juanita-Simmons-on-Christina-Boughen-transcript.pdf

Historian, author and royal commentator Dr. Carolyn Harris, joins us to talk about queens and revolution. Dr Harris teaches history at the University of Toronto and is the author of Queenship and Revolution in Early Modern Europe and co-editor of the English Consorts series, published by Palgrave Macmillan. See all of Carolyn's publications at httwww.royalhistorian.com/booksrecent-articles/ Read the interview transcript: https://www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/uploads/Carolyn-Harris-on-queens-and-revolution.pdfRead more about Henrietta Maria, Marie Antoinette and Alexandra Fyodorovna on the Infinite Women site