Carolyn Eichner’s book, Franchir les barricades: Les femmes dans la Commune de Paris, was published today by Editions de la Sorbonne (Paris). This is the French translation of Eichner’s, Surmounting the Barricades: Women in the Paris Commune (Indiana University Press).… Continue Reading »
Wisconsin Led the Path to Women’s Suffrage: Interview with WGS Associate Prof. Carolyn Eichner
This year marks the centennial of congressional approval of the U.S. constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. After Congress passed the amendment in June 1919, Wisconsin was the first state to ratify it a week later. UWM’s own … Continue Reading »
Carolyn Eichner on UWM Today
Prof. Carolyn Eichner of Women’s and Gender Studies and History was recently on WUWM’s UWM Today, talking about the history of women’s pursuit of the right to vote.… Continue Reading »
Carolyn Eichner is the recipient of a 2019 RACAS award
Prof. Carolyn Eichner (Women’s and Gender Studies and History) received a 2019 Research and Creative Actives Support (RACAS) award from the UWM Graduate School for her project “The Mark of Identity: Metropolitan Jews, Liberated Afro-Caribbeans, Algerian Muslims, and the Surname.” … Continue Reading »