Fellows

2024 Cokie Roberts Women’s History Fellows

Rachel Kline

Independent Public Historian & Supervisory Historian
USDA Forest Service
University of Texas at Austin

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 Kahkoksa portrait

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