Summit Participant Bios and Headshots

Summit Participant Bios and Headshots Where are the Women? Summit -- investigating why women are vastly underrepresented in U.S. history and social studies curriculum Saturday, February 13, 2021 from 1:00 pm-3:00 pm EST at: https://www.youtube.com/c/americanmasters Host Errin Haines Founder of The 19th Errin Haines is a Founding Mother and Editor-At-Large for The 19th, a nonprofit, independent newsroom covering the intersection of women, politics and policy, and an MSNBC Contributor. An award-winning political journalist focused on issues of race, gender and politics, Errin was previously the Associated Press' National Writer on Race and Ethnicity. She has also worked at The Washington Post, The Orlando Sentinel and The Los Angeles Times. Errin was a Fall 2019 Ferris Professor at Princeton University, teaching a class on black women and the 2020 election and a Fall 2020 fellow at the Georgetown Institute of Politics. Originally from Atlanta, Errin is based in Philadelphia with her dog, Ginger. 1 Land Acknowledgement & Poetry Recitation Joy Harjo U.S. Poet Laureate, Muscogee (Creek) Nation Harjo’s nine books of poetry include An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave won several awards, including the PEN USA Literary Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the American Book Award. She co-edited two anthologies of contemporary Native women’s writing including Our Songs Came Through and Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Native Women’s Writing of North America, one of the London Observer’s Best Books of 1997. She is the recipient of the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation for Lifetime Achievement, the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the United States Artist Fellowship. In 2014 she was inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame. A renowned musician, Harjo performs with her saxophone nationally and internationally, solo and with her band, the Arrow Dynamics. She has five award-winning CDs of music including the award-winning album Red Dreams, A Trail Beyond Tears and Winding Through the Milky Way, which won a Native American Music Award for Best Female Artist of the Year in 2009. Harjo’s latest is a book of poetry from Norton, An American Sunrise. In 2019, Joy Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold the position. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Keynote Address Martha S. Jones Author, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Professor Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at The 2 Johns Hopkins University. She is a legal and cultural historian whose work examines how black Americans have shaped the story of American democracy. Professor Jones is the author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Cambridge University Press, 2018), winner of the Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy Award for the best book in civil rights history, the American Historical Association Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book in American legal history, and the American Society for Legal History John Phillip Reid book award for the best book in Anglo-American legal history. Her latest work published in 2020 is Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Fought for Rights for All (Basic.) Professor Jones is also author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture 1830-1900 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007). She is also co-editor of Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (University of North Carolina Press, 2015, together with many important articles and essays. Professor Jones is recognized as a public historian, frequently writing for broad audiences at outlets including the Washington Post, the Atlantic, USA Today, Public Books, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Time, the curatorship of museum exhibitions including “Reframing the Color Line” and “Proclaiming Emancipation” in conjunction with the William L. Clements Library, and collaborations with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the Charles Wright Museum of African American History, the American Experience, the Southern Poverty Law Center, PBS, Netflix, and Arte (France.) Professor Jones currently serves as a President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, and on the Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians. Research Presentation Lori Ann Terjesen Director of Education, The National Women’s History Museum Lori Ann Terjesen, PhD, is the Director of Education at the National Women’s History Museum where she develops, presents, and oversees programs and projects that interpret the Museum’s mission with special emphasis on the history of 3 American women. Lori Ann is a nonprofit management specialist and museum educator with a 15-year career in museums and cultural institutions. Previously, she served as the director of education at the Children’s Science Center in Fairfax, Virginia, where she led a team of education staff to support both the Center’s outreach and onsite educational programming, serving more than 80,000 visitors annually. Lori Ann completed her Ph.D. in art history and museum studies at Case Western Reserve University. She received her M.A. in museum studies from Seton Hall University, as well as a post -baccalaureate certificate in nonprofit organization management. She completed her B.A. in art history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Lori Ann is a graduate of the Leadership Fairfax Institute class of 2016, and was recognized as a “Forty Under 40” honoree by the Leadership Center for Excellence in 2016. Panel Discussion & Live Chat Audience Q&A Moderator Treva B. Lindsey Professor of Women’s & Gender Studies, Ohio State University Treva B. Lindsey, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University. She is the author of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C. Her forthcoming book is titled America Goddamn: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice. She is a 2020-2021 ACLS/Mellon Scholar and Society Fellow, and was the inaugural Equity for Women and Girls of Color Fellowship at Harvard University. She is also the author of many articles and book chapters on African American history and culture, and the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, grants and fellowships. 4 Panelists Alexander Cuenca Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Indiana University Alexander Cuenca is Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and coordinator of the Middle and Secondary Social Studies Education Program at Indiana University. He served as Chair of the Task Force that developed the National Standards for the Preparation of Social Studies Teachers, and is currently a member of the National Council for the Social Studies Board of Directors. His research explores how teachers learn, the pedagogy of teacher education, and teacher education policy. Dr. Cuenca has been featured in stories about teaching and teacher education in media outlets such as National Public Radio, St. Louis Public Radio, Associated Press, St. Louis Post Dispatch, and Indianapolis Star. His most recently edited book, Teaching for Citizenship in Urban Schools (Information Age Press) features strategies that help social studies teachers combine the power of inquiry-driven teaching with a funds of knowledge approach to capitalize on the lived civic experiences of urban youth and children. Prior to working in higher education, Dr. Cuenca was a middle school social studies teacher in Miami, Florida. Daniel Czitrom Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College Born and raised in the Bronx, Daniel Czitrom is Professor of History at the Ford Foundation at Mount Holyoke College, with special interest in the history of New York City and 20th century America. He is author most recently of New York Exposed: The Gilded Age Police Scandal That Launched the Progressive Era (Oxford, 2016; pb, 2018). Czitrom is also the author of Rediscovering Jacob Riis (2008); Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (1982); and co-author of Out of Many: A History of the American People (9th ed., 2020). He served as Historical Advisor for the BBC America historical drama Copper (2012-13) set in Civil War era New York. He has 5 appeared as a featured on-camera commentator in numerous documentary film projects, including Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip (PBS/American Masters, 2020); Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People (PBS/American Masters, 2018); The Rise and Fall of Penn Station (PBS, 2014); New York: A Documentary Film (PBS, 1999). In 2012, Czitrom was elected to the Society of American Historians, based at Columbia University, which promotes literary distinction in historical writing, and he now serves on its Executive Board. Molly Murphy MacGregor Executive Director & Co-Founder, National Women's History Alliance As Executive Director and Co-founder of the National Women’s History Alliance for over 40 years, MacGregor has worked with leaders of national women’s organizations to encourage them to celebrate their own organizations’ history as well as to build coalitions to develop programs and events that celebrate the vast array of women’s lives. She also works with curriculum and equity specialists in school districts throughout the country to train teachers in ways to integrate a multicultural women’s history perspective into the school curriculum. Gholdy Muhammad Associate Professor of Language, Literacy & Culture, Georgia State University Dr. Gholnecsar (Gholdy) Muhammad is an Associate Professor of Language and Literacy at Georgia State University. She also serves as the director of the GSU Urban Literacy Collaborative and Clinic.

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