SCHOLARSHIP

SCHOLARSHIP

The Free Speech Movement at the University of California Berkeley, 1964. 

Photo: Ron Enfield

Poster for the Women’s Strike, August 26, 1970

Image: Yanker Poster Collection, Library of Congress.

The Free Speech Movement at the University of California Berkeley, 1964. 

Photo: Ron Enfield

Our team is working on individual and collaborative projects related to Dawson and her work, including books, articles, archival collections, dissertations, and conference presentations, including:

Kipp Dawson Papers, 1951-2021, AIS.2022.10, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System. Kipp Dawson working with Catherine Evans.

“Women Miners Oral History Project,” West Virginia University. Jessie Wilkerson, project director.

Jessie B. Ramey and Catherine Evans, “‘We Came Together and We Fought’: Kipp Dawson and Resistance to State Violence in U.S. Social Movements Since the 1960s,” Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (148): 181–192.

Jessie B. Ramey and Amelia Golcheski, “Love, Joy, and Hope: Kipp Dawson and Social Movement Resiliency Since the 1950s,” American Historical Review (forthcoming, special issue, Fall 2024).

Catherine A. Evans and Jessie B. Ramey, Challenging and Documenting Resistance to State Violence: A Conversation with Activist Kipp Dawson,” The Abusable Past (February 12, 2024).

“Rethinking Movement Leadership: Kipp Dawson and Women’s Radical Collaboration Since the 1960s,” Berkshire Conference of Women, Gender, and Sexualities 2023 (June 2023, Santa Clara, CA).

“The Beauty of Struggling Together”: Kipp Dawson and the Lessons of Freedom Movements Since the 1960s,” National Women’s Studies Association Conference (October 2023, Baltimore, MD).

Jessie Wilkerson, “Women Miners and the Struggle for Women’s Rights, Family Leave, and Dignity at Work,” part of the West Virginia Feminist Activism Exhibit, West Virginia & Regional History Center, West Virginia University (October 2023, Morgantown, WV).

“Histories of Resilience,” American Historical Association Conference (January, 2024, San Francisco, CA).