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2017 Winner of an AASLH Leadership in History Award
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While today, press coverage treats Christianity’s alignment with political conservatism as a foregone conclusion, there is a larger milieu of liberal and progressive activism with Christian social justice. Join Averill and special guest Mark Lempke, Read more…
We have an image of puritans as cold, severe, hyper-strict and religious people, and while that’s not entirely false, it’s also not entirely true. From the very beginning, Early Americans were thinking about sex. The courts Read more…
In 19th century New York City, sex was for sale and it wasn’t hard to find it. Commodified sex was everywhere and available for any price. The years between roughly 1850 to about 1910 were the years that Read more…
DIG: Formerly the History Buffs Podcast.This is Dig: A History Podcast. You don’t need a shovel to unearth this history. You just need an hour and a pair of headphones.
Assistant Professor of History at Mercyhurst University. Researches sex, gender, and incarceration in modern Ireland. History side hustles: Nursing Clio, DIG, and the LGBTQ Council for the Pennsylvania History Association. Will tell you about maple creamees, just ask.
Adjunct Professor of History for the University at Buffalo and Quinnipiac University. Completing a book on disabled Civil War veterans, forthcoming 2018. Administrative Assistant for UB History Department, editor at Nursing Clio. Has participated in Civil War reenactments, and still has the petticoats to prove it.
Independent information professional and PhD candidate in History. Studies lactating women for hire in the Atlantic world during the Revolutionary era. Has won lots of really cool grants and fellowships, 2015 article on wet-nursing ads in the Journal of Family History. Unhealthy obsession with true crime podcasts.
PhD candidate in History writing about how the formation of the American welfare state was explicitly tied to women's sexuality. 2017-18 UB Gender Institute Dissertation Fellow. Savvy blogger, styling YouTuber, and Texas native.