DRAFT Schedule
8:30 to 9:00 – Registration
9:00 to 10:15 – Sessions One and Two
Session One: Women, Work, and War
Moderator: Chandler Lighty, Indiana Historical Bureau
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Anita Morgan,
Indiana University – Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) | “Blushing Young Virgins and Elderly Matrons”?: Women Workers at the Indiana State Arsenal |
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Nancy N. Conner,
Indiana Humanities | The Impact of World War II: Mexican American and Japanese American Women at Work in Indiana |
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Ruth L. Fairbanks,
Indiana State University | Expecting Trouble: War Production, Physicians and the Pregnant Worker |
Session Two: Women Reformers at Work
Moderator: Nicole Poletika, Indiana Historical Bureau
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Amanda Koch,
Indiana University | Woman with a Mission: The Superintendent’s Wife at an Indianapolis Rescue Mission |
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Katherine Badertscher,
Indiana University | Evaline Holliday and the Work of Community Service |
10:30 to 11:45 – Sessions Three, Four, and Five
Session Three: Changing Attitudes on Women and Work
Moderator: Anita Morgan, IUPUI
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M. Teresa Baer,
Indiana Historical Society | Susan Wallace: : Eyewitness to Women’s Places in the Victorian Era |
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Laura Merrifield Albright,
University of Indianapolis | Women in Indiana State Government: Reflecting on 200 Years of Achievements |
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Virginia F. Pleasant,
Purdue University | Women’s Contributions to Household Economy, Agriculture, and Education through Home Demonstration Clubs and Cooperative Extension Work |
Session Four: Business Women at Work
Moderator: Justin Clark, IUPUI
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Wendy Gamber,
Indiana University | Indianapolis’s Female Economy: The Work History of The Notorious Mrs. Clem |
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Jyoti Verderame,
IUPUI | Flora Krauch: How a Progressive Era Working Woman Became Known as Mother to the Nation’s First Complete Children’s Wear Department |
Session Five: Discrimination and Compensation for Women’s Work
Moderator: Jordan Ryan, IUPUI
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Norma B. Erickson,
IUPUI | Unparalleled Helpfulness and Loyalty: An Introduction to the Early Training of African-American Nurses in Indianapolis, 1909-1921 |
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Vivian Deno,
Butler University | Laurel C. Thayer, Self-Supporting Women, and the Struggle for Waged Equality in Early Twentieth Century Indiana |
12:00 to 1:30 – Lunch with Keynote Speaker,
Nancy Gabin, Department of History, Purdue University
“Bossy Ladies: Toward a History of Wage-Earning Women in Indiana”
1:30 to 2:45 – Sessions Six, Seven, and Eight
Session Six: Women, Crime, and Reformation
Moderator: Jill Weiss, Indiana Historical Bureau
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Kelsey Kauffman, Michelle Jones, Anastazia Schmid, Kim Baldwin, Leslie Hauk, Lara Campbell, Nan Luckhart,
Indiana Women’s Prison | Women, Crime, and Reformation in Postbellum Indiana |
Session Seven: Changing Nature of Miami Women’s Work
Moderator: Nancy Conner, Indiana Humanities
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Dani Tippmann,
Whitley County Historical Museum | Takumwah, Leader through the Generations |
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Ashley Glassburn Falzetti,
Eastern Michigan University | The Impact of Land Cession Treaties on Miami Women’s Labor and Practices of Survivance |
Session Eight: College Women at Work
Moderator: Brittany Kropf, Indiana State Library
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Noraleen A. Young,
Past to Present | Help the Girls Win Out”: Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity and college women in Indiana prior to 1920 |
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Karen Wood,
Green3, LLC | Leading Hoosier Women in Wartime: How Kate Hevner Mueller Prepared Collegiate Coeds for World War II |
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Khalilah A. Shabazz, Remitha Norman
IUPUI, EeClipse Management Consulting | Seven Pearls in Action: Reflections on Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated and its contributions to Indiana’s Youth and Women |
3:00 to 4:00 – Plenary Session
“What Future for Indiana Women’s History?”
Jen Guiliano, IUPUI
Modupe Labode, IUPUI
Jeannie Regan-Dinius, Department of Historic Preservation & Archaeology, DNR
Susan Ferentinos, Public History Consultant
Partners and Sponsors:
This program has been made possible through a matching grant from Indiana Humanities in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities.