Journal of Women's History

Jennifer Bowers, MA, MLS, a professor and social sciences librarian, teaches at the University of Denver. She is coeditor of the fifteen-volume Rowman and Littlefield series Literary Research: Strategies and Sources and the coauthor of three volumes in the series. Professor Bowers received the 2018 Primary Source Award for Teaching from the Center for Research Libraries. In addition to a keen interest in the experiences and legacies of early women archaeologists, Bowers’s current research concerns visual literacy and critical approaches to teaching with digital and analog primary sources in the social sciences, emphasizing historical representations and contemporary self-representations of Indigenous peoples in archival materials, photography, and graphic novels.

Lois A. Boynton is an associate professor in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on ethics in media, journalism, and public relations as well as pedagogy and professionalism. She teaches ethics and public relations classes, serves on the school’s diversity committee, and is a fellow in the university’s Parr Center for Ethics. She earned a BA in history from Lenoir Rhyne University, and an MA and PhD from UNC–Chapel Hill. She is a member of the Public Relations Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and is an associate editor of its newsletter. She also holds membership in the Media Ethics Division of AEJMC, the International Communication Association, the Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, and the Public Relations Society of America.

Verónica Castillo-Muñoz is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with training in gender, Latin America, and US history. She has written widely on the intersections between gender, family migration, and the US–Mexico borderlands. Castillo-Muñoz is the author of The Other California: Land Identity and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands, published by the University of California Press (2016). She is working on her new book on how women shaped the Mexican Revolution and the US–Mexico borderlands.

Agnès Garcia-Ventura received her PhD in history from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, in 2012. She has been awarded several postdoc fellowships, in competitive calls, to work at the University of Heidelberg, at the University of Rome (La Sapienza), and at the University of Barcelona. Currently she is the Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her main areas of interest are women’s studies and gender studies, historiography of ancient Western Asian studies, the organization of work in Mesopotamia, and ancient musical performance (in both Mesopotamia and the Phoenician and Punic contexts). She is the coeditor of several volumes linked to gender studies, including Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East (Eisenbrauns and Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018) and The Mummy Under the Bed: Essays on Gender and Methodology in the Ancient Near East (Zaphon, 2022).

Dwonna Naomi Goldstone is the director of the African American Studies Program and an associate professor of history at Texas State University. Her book, Integrating the Forty Acres: The Fifty-Year Struggle for Racial Equality at the University of Texas (University of Georgia Press, 2006), won the Coral H. Tullis Memorial Prize for the best book on Texas history.

Hung-Yok Ip teaches East Asian and world history at Oregon State University. She is the author of Intellectuals in Revolutionary China, 1921–1949: Leaders, Heroes and Sophisticates (Routledge, 2005). She has also authored a number of articles, edited a special issue titled “Buddhist Activism and Chinese Modernity” (2009) with Journal of Global Buddhism, and co-edited Beyond the May Fourth Paradigm: In Search of Chinese Modernity (Lexington Books, 2008). In 2022, she published Grassroots Activism of Ancient China: Mohism and Nonviolence (Lexington Books, 2022). Currently, she is working on a manuscript on Buddhism and Chinese politics.

Stephanie Mahin is faculty in the Management & Corporate Communication Department at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. She teaches business communication, corporate social advocacy and activism, and reputation management courses to the undergraduate and masters of business administration populations. She received her PhD from the UNC Hussman School of...