HomeFellows Fellows 2024 Cokie Roberts Women’s History Fellows Rachel Kline Independent Public Historian & Supervisory Historian USDA Forest Service Fellowship Topic: “We Feminine Foresters”: Women, Conservation, and the USDA Forest Service: 1905-2020 Molly Lester Associate Director Urban Heritage Project, University of Pennsylvania Fellowship Topic: The New Deal’s “She-She-She Camps” for Unemployed Women 2024 Cokie Roberts Commended Scholars in Women’s History Gail Ablow Writer / Director / Producer Lady Dynamo Productions LLC Proposal Topic: The Untold Story of Anna Rosenberg, a Mid-20th Century Powerbroker Lisa Tetrault Associate Professor Carnegie Mellon University Proposal Topic: Words Matter: A Textual History of the Nineteenth Amendment 2024 Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History Official Finalists Judi Freeman Independent Scholar; former Seevak Chair in History Boston Latin School Proposal Topic: Courageous Conviction: Dorothy Thompson and Her Crusade to Redefine Journalism Serene B. Williams AP History Teacher Sacred Heart Preparatory High School Proposal Topic: Creating an AP U.S. Women’s History Course 2023 Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History Fellows Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD Author and Historian Brown University Fellowship Topic: Frances Perkins’s Immigration Policy Ashley D. Farmer, PhD Associate Professor University of Texas at Austin Fellowship Topic: Black Women Activists and the FBI Arlisha R. Norwood, PhD Assistant Professor University of Maryland Eastern Shore Fellowship Topic: Black Women and the Freedmen’s Bureau Court 2023 Cokie Roberts Commended Scholars in Women’s History M. Alison Kibler, PhD Professor Franklin and Marshall College Proposal Topic: Feminist Television Activism in the 1970s Ashley Robertson Preston, PhD Assistant Professor Howard University Proposal Topic: Mary McLeod Bethune and the National Youth Administration 2022 Cokie Roberts Women’s History Fellows Jessica Kahkoska Writer, Researcher and Producer for Theater and Television Fellowship Topic: Women at the Nuremberg Trials Randa Tawil, PhD Assistant Professor Texas Christian University Fellowship Topic: Migration History and Reproductive Justice 2022 Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History Official Finalists Rebecca Brenner Graham, PhD History Teacher The Madeira School Proposal Topic: Frances Perkins and the German-Jewish refugee crisis M. Alison Kibler, PhD Professor Franklin and Marshall College Proposal Topic: Feminist Television Activism in the 1970s Ashley Robertson Preston, PhD Assistant Professor Howard University Proposal Topic: Mary McLeod Bethune and the National Youth Administration 2021 Cokie Roberts Women’s History Fellows Kara Dixon Vuic, PhD Professor Texas Christian University Fellowship Topic: Women and Selective Service Lois Leveen, PhD Public Humanities Scholar and Author Fellowship Topic: African American Women’s Activism During the Civil War and Reconstruction
