Your Historians

Dig: A History Podcast is a narrative-driven, open access, and accessible digital history project bridging the worlds of popular and academic history with an explicitly feminist perspective.

Questions, comments, ideas for future episodes? You can email us at hello@digpodcast.org!

Averill Earls, PhD

Executive Producer

Averill is a historian of modern Ireland and sexuality, and writes about same-sex desiring men, policing, and Dublin’s queer urban spaces. She is an Associate Professor of History at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, where she teaches European, digital, and sexuality history. She’s currently a host for the New Books in Irish Studies podcast and the Layout Editor at Nursing Clio. Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland (2025) is now available from Temple University Press. When she’s not teaching, podcasting, or moonlighting as a member of the Cabot Creamery Co-operative social media team, she enjoys board games, baking, and family time with her partner Dan and their dog Curie.

Sarah Handley-Cousins, PhD

Producer

Sarah is the author of the award-winning Bodies in Blue: Disability in the Civil War North. She is an Associate Teaching Professor of History at the University at Buffalo. In addition to a PhD in History from the University at Buffalo, Sarah holds a BA from Wells College and an MSEd from Niagara University, and is an alum of the New York State Council for the Humanities Public Humanities Fellows. Sarah is the executive editor of the collaborative feminist digital publication Nursing Clio, and her writing appears on various digital news outlets, including The Washington Post and The New York Times. She is an unrepentant horse girl, and enjoys unresolved romantic tension (in books and movies, that is), visiting the Gettysburg National Military Park, and heated blankets.

Marissa C. Rhodes, PhD

Producer

Marissa C. Rhodes, the one and only, standing on a bridge in a cemetery

Marissa is an Assistant Professor of History at St. Leo University in Florida. She received her doctorate in History from the University at Buffalo in 2019. Her current book project tells the stories of lactating women for hire in the Atlantic world during the Revolutionary era. In addition to a BA in History from Niagara University, Marissa has an MLS from UB. She is a former fellow at APS, The Library Company/HSP & the Lapidus-Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. She also served as the first Managing Director of the Journal of the Plague Year. But most importantly, she’s super into red wine, British television, and murder (as much as someone can be into murder without actually doing them – she even helped solve a cold case!).

Elizabeth Garner Masarik, PhD

Producer

Elizabeth is an Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Brockport. Her award-winning book, The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State focuses on women’s reform movements in the Gilded Age/Progressive Era. She is the author of “Por la Raza, Para la Raza: Jovita Idar and Progressive-era Mexicana Maternalism in the Texas-Mexican Border,” published in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. The article won the A. Elizabeth Taylor Article Prize from the Southern Association of Women Historians. Elizabeth was the inaugural SUNY Dr. Virginia Radley Fellowship for women’s history. She earned an MA and PhD from the University at Buffalo and BA from the University of Texas at Austin. When she’s not teaching or podcasting she’s either getting tattooed or planning her next trip to Disney World.