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About Rebecca Turkington
Rebecca is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge studying transnational women’s organizing in the mid-20th century. Prior to returning to academia she was Assistant Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Program Manager at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security.NBN Episodes hosted by Rebecca:
January 7, 2024
The Future Is Feminist
When Algerians of the 1920s and 30s imagined the future of their country, women’s liberation was foundational to their vision. From the first generati…
October 7, 2023
Feminist Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice
In 2014, Sweden announced the world’s first “feminist foreign policy,” an approach more than two dozen other nations have since adopted. But different…
September 4, 2023
Among Women Across Worlds
In Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press, 2023), Suzy Kim follows Korean women’s engagement in a bro…
May 6, 2023
Bury the Corpse of Colonialism
In 1949, women from across the world traveled to Beijing for the Asian Women’s Conference to discuss how to combat the dual threats of colonial rule a…
March 18, 2023
Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946-1975
In Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 (University of Nebraska Press, 2023), Giusi Russo focuses on the first decades o…
January 24, 2023
"Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas"
In “Fame is Not Just for the Fellas”: Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022), Gregory Pf…
December 20, 2022
Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002
In Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002 (Oxford University Press, 2022), Jane Freeland traces the deve…
December 5, 2022
Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism
Women played an essential role in the international struggle against fascism during the interwar period, though their work has been neglected in broad…
November 11, 2022
Not the Camilla We Knew
How could an artist and former social worker from small-town Minnesota become one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United States? Camilla…
August 2, 2022
Citizens of the World
In Citizens of the World: U.S. Women and Global Government (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), Megan Threlkeld profiles nine American women in t…
November 18, 2021
Tunisia's Modern Woman
Following Tunisian independence in 1956, President Habib Bourguiba centered women’s liberation as part of the identity of the new nation. In Tunisia’s…