Katherine Marino to give talk on “women’s rights and human rights” on March 16!

We are pleased to announce that Katherine Marino (Ohio State) will be our guest presenter during the next APHI seminar on Wednesday, March 16 at Noon in the History Department (226 Bay State Rd), room 504. The subject of the talk will be “Mobilizing Women’s Rights and Human Rights in War.”

Marino is a 2015-2016 visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in history from Stanford in 2013 and is now assistant professor at the Ohio State University. Her dissertation explores Pan-American feminism from the 1920s to the 1940s, and is currently being turned into a book manuscript provisionally titled La Vanguardia Feminista: Pan-American Feminism and the Rise of International Women’s Rights, 1915-1946. Her article, “Transnational Pan-American Feminism: The Friendship of Bertha Lutz and Mary Wilhelmine Williams, 1926-1944” was published in the Journal of Women’s History in Summer, 2014, and her article “Marta Vergara, Popular-Front Pan-American Feminism, and the Transnational Struggle for Working Women’s Rights in the 1930s” was published in Gender & History in Fall 2014. For more on Marino, see her faculty bio page here: https://history.osu.edu/people/marino.118