EDITOR’S
NOTE: If you need help reaching faculty members, contact Angie Joe
for UH at (713) 743-8153;
Jennifer Price for UHV at (361) 570-4350 and Karen Barbier for UHCL
at (281) 283-2029.
TELLING HER STORY: UH
EXPERTS AVAILABLE
TO DISCUSS ISSUES DURING WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
When author Betty Friedan in the 1960s coined the phrase “problem
that has no name” — the isolation of the middle-class
housewife who sacrificed intellectual and professional aspirations
— the feminist movement gained momentum. By the 1970s, women’s
issues were incorporated into school curricula across the U.S. Since
1987, Congress has issued a resolution proclaiming March to be Women’s
History Month.
As you write stories commemorating Women’s History Month
and International Women’s Day (March 8), University of Houston
experts can comment on a wide range of topics including women’s
suffrage across the globe, gender issues in the media and Minnie
Fisher Cunningham, leader of the Texas suffrage movement.
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Reiland Rabaka, visiting scholar, African American Studies
(713) 743-0400 or rrabaka@uh.edu
Women’s social and political thought, feminist philosophy,
Marxist feminism, postmodern feminism, anti-racist feminism, Women
of Color Studies, womanism, black feminist thought, radical black
feminism, and male-feminism.
MEDIA
Beth Olson, associate professor of communication
(713) 743-2881 or bolson@uh.edu
Women in the media, gender issues in the media.
ENGINEERING
Jenny Ruchhoeft, educational grants manager, department of electrical
and computer engineering
(713) 743-5939 or grade@egr.uh.edu
The Girls Reaching and Demonstrating Excellence (G.R.A.D.E.) Camp
is a week-long program for 9th to 12th grade girls who want to
find out what engineering is all about through “hands-on”
experience. For more information about GRADE, go to http://www.egr.uh.edu/grade/.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Richard Matland, associate professor of political science
(713) 743-3911, (713) 728-2371 or Matland@uh.edu
Women’s participation in politics around the globe; helped
develop an action plan for the Committee on the Status of Women
for the Secretary General of the United Nations.
WOMEN’S STUDIES
Elizabeth Gregory, director, UH Women’s Studies Program
(713) 743-0932 or egregory@uh.edu
The Women’s Archive and Research Center, which is administered
by the UH Women’s Studies Program, keeps records from nearly
20 local groups including the Houston Area Women’s Center,
the River Oaks Blossom Club and the Hispanic Women in Leadership.
The center also creates and preserves Texas women's oral histories.
For more information go to http://www.friendsofwomen.org/WARCpr.HTML.
HISTORY
Landon Storrs, associate professor of history
(713) 743-3091 or lstorrs@uh.edu
U.S. women’s history, labor, politics and 20th century history.
Linda Reed, associate professor of history
(713) 743-3092 or lreed@uh.edu
Co-author of “We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible: A
Reader in Black Women’s History.”
Monica Perales, assistant professor of history
(713) 743-3103 or Mperales3@uh.edu
Chicana history, Mexican American history.
Hal Smith and Judith McArthur, professors of humanities/history,
University of Houston-Victoria
(361) 570-4212 or smithh@uhv.edu
Women’s suffrage; co-authored “Minnie Fisher Cunningham:
A Suffragist's Life in Politics,” the first book to document
Cunningham's lifelong career in politics. McArthur is also the
author of “Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern
Women's Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1928,” and Smith
wrote “The British Women's Suffrage Campaign 1866-1928.”
Angela M. Howard, professor of history, University of Houston-Clear
Lake
(281) 283-3369 or howarda@cl.uh.edu
Co-editor, “Handbook of American Women’s History;”
co-editor of “Antifeminism in America, 1848 to the Present:
A Reader.”
For more information about UH visit the university’s ‘Newsroom’ at www.uh.edu/admin/media/newsroom.
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