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About Jennifer Davis Cline

Davis Cline is Associate Professor of History, University of Oklahoma and Co-Editor, Journal of Women's History

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NBN Episodes hosted by Jennifer:

Women's History October 28, 2021

This Land is Herland

Gendered Activism in Oklahoma, 1870-2010

Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Cori Simon (Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma) speaks with Sarah Eppler Janda (Professor, Cameron University) and Patricia Loughlin (Professor, University of Central Oklahoma) about their new edited volume, This Land …
General History July 30, 2021

Writing Kit Carson

Fallen Heroes in a Changing West

Susan Lee Johnson

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Jennifer Holland (Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma) speaks with Susan Johnson (Harry Reid Endowed Chair, History of the Intermountain West, University of Las Vegas-Nevada) about Johnson’s recent book, Writing Kit Carson …
General History June 17, 2021

Reframing Japonisme

Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853–1914

Elizabeth Emery

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Erin Duncan O’Neill (Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma) speaks with Elizabeth Emery (Professor, Montclair State University) about Emery’s recent book, Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century …
General History June 1, 2021

The Valkyries' Loom

The Archaeology of Cloth Production and Female Power in the North Atlantic

Michèle Hayeur Smith

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Marianne Hem Eriksen (Associate Professor, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester) speaks with Michèle Hayeur Smith (Research Associate, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University) about Smith's recent …
General History May 24, 2021

Naked Agency

Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa

Naminata Diabate

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Bala Saho (Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma) speaks with Naminata Diabate (Associate Professor, Cornell University) about her book, Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa, published by Duke University …
General History April 12, 2021

Mobilizing Black Germany

Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement

Tiffany N. Florvil

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
In this globe-spanning work, Florvil uncovers the manifold activities Black German women undertook in the 1980s and 1990s to resist and challenge racism, sexism, and homophobia at home and abroad …
General History April 7, 2021

Embodying Geopolitics

Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon

Nicola Pratt

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Dina Hassan (Lecturer, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, University of Oklahoma, USA) speaks with Nicola Pratt (Associate Professor, International Politics of the Middle East, University of Warwick, UK) about Pratt’s …
General History March 17, 2021

Nepantla Squared

Transgender Mestiz@ Histories in Times of Global Shift

Linda Heidenreich

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
In the Nahuatl language, nepantla refers to the ancient Mesoamerican “philosophy that views the world through motion-change,” binding past, present and potential futures together in creative tension (p. xvii). In Nepantla …
General History February 15, 2021

Recasting the Vote

How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement

Cathleen D. Cahill

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Women of color shaped the U.S. suffrage movement, framing women’s right to vote as fundamental to parallel movements for racial justice and citizenship reforms. In a collective biography of six …
Gender Studies December 7, 2020

Desired States

Sex, Gender, and Political Culture in Chile

Lessie Jo Frazier

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Sarah Hines (Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Oklahoma) and James Cane-Carrasco (Associate Professor, Departments of History and International & Area Studies, University of Oklahoma) speak with Lessie Jo …
Gender Studies October 13, 2020

Sex in an Old Regime City

Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789

Julie Hardwick

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Young women and men sought out each other’s company in the workshops, cabarets, and streets of Old Regime Lyon, and evidence of these relationships lingers in documents and material objects …
Gender Studies July 2, 2020

The Age of Phillis

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Jennifer J. Davis speaks with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, about The Age of Phillis (Wesleyan UP, 2020), Jeffers’s latest collection of poems centered …
Native American Studies September 1, 2011

Federal Fathers and Mothers

A Social History of the Indian Service, 1869-1933

Cathleen Cahill

Hosted by Jennifer Davis Cline
Cathleen D. Cahill's groundbreaking new work, Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 (UNC Press, 2011), lives up to the title: it is …