The Berkshire Conference (@berksconference) on the History of Women, Gender, and Sexualities, “Beyond Boundaries: Gender, History and the Futures We Imagine,” will be in Minneapolis June 10–13, 2027. Now accepting proposals for individual papers, panels, roundtables, and works-in-progress workshops.
Congratulations to Dr. Gaby Báez! Gaby defended her dissertation, "Medicine Worlds: Women and Indigenous Pharmacopeia in Early Modern Mexico" in May 2026.
Gaby was managing editor of the JWH from 2021-2023.
Congratulations to all the graduates of 2026! You made it 🥹 and we are so proud of you!
Image Description: Black and white photograph of graduates wearing women's liberation signs at Harvard University's 1972 commencement.
Image Credit: Boston Globe / Getty Images
More information here: berksconference.org/big-berks-20...
She is now working for the state of Oklahoma with the Oklahoma Arts Council. She is the Capitol Tours Manager and curates art, history, and civics into learning experience for visitors to the state capitol. She is planning a new project about Xoloitzcuintles and plans to publish her dissertation.
Congratulations Martin Nesvig for winning the "Bandelier / Lavrin Colonial Latin American History!
We talked with Nesvig about "The Women Who Threw Corn" (from @universitypress.cambridge.org) in September 2025.
Check out the interview here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-women-wh...
NEW ISSUE IS OUT!
Read our latest issue, "Female Health Professionals and Colonial and Imperial Medicine in the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire" out now on Project Muse.
muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/issue/56910
The issue was curated by guest eds. Liat Kozma and Gülhan Balsoy. It features articles by Anabella Esperanza, Nicole Hayat and Liat Kozma, Adam Anabosi, and Lydia Wytenbroek. It includes a book review essays by Cassia Roth.
📑 Help us to create a pool of syllabi for which scholars and teachers can draw upon for their courses. If you would like to include a syllabus from one of your courses that covers some aspect of women’s and gender history check out our website for more details:
jwomenshistory.org/syllabi/
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Journal of Women's History
38.2, Summer 2026
tiny.one/2p8tkx58
CONTRIBUTORS
Sandie Holguín
Liat Kozma
Gülhan Balsoy
Anabella Esperanza
Nicole Khayat
Adam Anabosi
Lydia Wytenbroek
Cassia Roth
