Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies turns fifty this year and to commemorate this important milestone, the Frontiers editorial collective at the University of Utah produced a 50th anniversary Oral History Project.  Conceived in 2019, the project’s goal was to gather and archive oral history interviews with past Journal editors, editorial assistants, board members, and those affiliated with the Journal…

In her long career, Kathi George has edited a variety of books, from scholarly manuscripts to textbooks, trade books to fiction. After thirteen years editing Frontiers, George moved to San Diego in 1987 and as a freelancer has had such clients as Harcourt, Random House, Stanford University, ZYZZYVA, Brighton Press, Tehabi Books, Sun & Moon Press, SeaWorld, and Shambhala. She…

Kathy Kaiser is a writer, editor, and manager with a broad background in editing articles and books as well as working as a freelance editor. Kaiser was part of Frontiers at the University of Colorado – Boulder, as a community member who served on the Journal’s editorial board. In her interview, she identified the importance of merging community and academia…

Claudia Isaac is a Regents’ and Distinguished Professor of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico. Her primary field of research is in urban and community-based development, which includes leadership in areas such as: poverty alleviation, food systems planning, affordable housing, neighborhood planning and land use, metropolitan redevelopment, and community capacity building. She has taught…

A historian by training, Professor Elizabeth Jameson served as the Chair of the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse, and as the Director of the Women’s Studies Program at the University of New Mexico. While at the University of Calgary, she served as the Chair of American Studies. She is the author of two monographs,…

Throughout a thirty-year career, Professor Susan Armitage contributed to the history and study of women in the western United States through her research, publishing, teaching, and public outreach. Her career began in 1973 at the University of Colorado as a visiting Assistant professor of History and director of the Boulder Women’s Oral History Project. In 1978, she became an Assistant…

Krista Benson is an Associate Professor of the Integrative Studies Program at Grand Valley State University. She is an interdisciplinary scholar who blends diverse inquiries into women’s studies, gender and sexuality, colonialism, and racism with a special focus on marginalized youth. Their current project centers on the imposition of heteropatriarchal gender norms on indigenous youth in “in-state care,” such as…

Guisela Latorre is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. She specializes in modern and contemporary U.S. Latinx and Latin American art with a special emphasis on Chicana/Latina feminism. She has explored these topics in articles, chapters, and two books: Democracy on the Wall: Street Art of the Post-Dictatorship Era in Chile (2019) and Walls…

Professor Mytheli Sreenivas is the Chair of Women and Gender Studies at The Ohio State University. She serves in a joint appointment with OSU’s History Department. She holds a Ph.D. in Modern South Asian History and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Sreenivas specializes in modern South Asian history with a special focus on women’s…

Judy Wu is Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Wu also serves as the director of both the Humanities Center and the Center for Liberation, Anti-Racism, and Belonging at the university. Prior to UC Irvine, Wu was a professor at Ohio State University from 1998…

Renee Horowitz (original founder) Alanna Preussner Marilyn Krysl Charlotta Hensley  Esther Stineman Hardy Long Frank