Standing up for women's history
Wednesday, June 11th
7 PM EST
Virtual Program
2025 has seen unprecedented attacks on history and the humanities. Join the Alice Paul Center and Women’s History in High School for a special conversation with history practitioners about these threats and how we can keep sharing women’s stories. This panel will feature academics and teachers discussing their work documenting and teaching women’s history during this precarious time.
Panelists:
Kristen Kelly has a M.A. in Cultural Historical Religion from the Graduate Theological Union-Berkeley and teaches all high school levels. She created a popular “Gender & Sexuality in the Bible” course and co-taught the interdisciplinary Women’s Studies courses as well as AP Government & Politics courses with Serene. Kristen loves collaborating with scholars and teachers and has presented at The National Women’s Studies Association Conference, The National Council for Social Studies, & The Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians. Kristen loves teaching religion and history from an intersectional lens, focusing especially on gender and sexuality issues.
Kelly Marino is an Associate Teaching Professor at Sacred Heart University. She researches the intersections between the Nineteenth Amendment and education. Her book Votes for College Women was published by NYU Press in 2024.
Wendy L. Rouse is Professor of History and program coordinator of the Social Science Teacher Preparation Program at San Jose State University. Her scholarly research focuses on the history of women, gender and sexuality during the Progressive Era. Rouse’s most recent book, Public Faces, Secret Lives: The Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement (NYU Press, 2022), explores the ways that suffragists challenged the norms of their era.
Serene Williams has taught social science courses at the high school and collegiate levels for over twenty years at both public and private schools. She has two degrees in political science and teaches numerous AP courses. Serene has also written curriculum for many women’s history courses. Together with Kristen Kelly, she created a national campaign calling for the creation of an AP U.S. Women’s History course, also known as WAPUSH. Their petition has gained over 2,600 signatures and has support from leading scholars in the field. Serene runs the website Women’s History in High School and oversees an internship program of students from multiple states who are working to increase representation of women at the secondary level.