ELLEN HARTIGAN-O'CONNOR
Projects & Media
THE EMPIRE SUFFRAGE SYLLABUS
The Empire Suffrage Syllabus offers four modules as starter-kits, each providing conceptual questions, key themes, annotated secondary readings, suggested primary sources, and accompanying digital humanities resources to help us rethink U.S. women’s suffrage by foregrounding the framework of empire. We believe that The Empire Suffrage Syllabus will help us collectively better understand the past and challenge us to consider our responsibilities for the present and the future. ​
NATIONAL PARKS: THE STRUGGLE FOR SUFFRAGE AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE WEST
Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa G. Materson led a team of graduate students to research and write over 60 biographies of women connected with National Parks of the Western US and the Pacific. Collectively, their stories center a new history of citizenship and suffrage in the United States, prompting a re-examination of the contested centennial of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution.
UC CONSORTIUM ON WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY HISTORIES OF THE AMERICAS
Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor, Judy Wu, Rebecca Jo Plant, Lisa G. Materson, and dozens of scholars from across the University of California system have formed a Consortium to research gender history across the national boundaries of the Americas.
​This grant-funded consortium pioneered a number of research projects and collaborates on a number of projects, including The Empire Suffrage Syllabus.
Grant-Funded Public Scholarship on Women's and Gender History
Latest Media
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THE PAGE 99 TEST
"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." -Ford Madox Ford
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In this blog article, Professor Hartigan-O'Connor applies the “Page 99 Test” to her new book, America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values.
THE AUTHOR'S CORNER
with ELLEN HARTIGAN-O’CONNOR
Rachel Petroziello interviews Dr. Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor about her latest book: America Under the Hammer: Auctions and the Emergence of Market Values.
NEW BOOKS IN ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS HISTORY
In contrast to histories focused on banks, currencies, or plantations, America Under the Hammer highlights an institution that integrated market, community, and household in ways that put gender, race, and social bonds at the center of ideas about economic worth. Women and men, enslaved and free, are active participants in this story rather than bystanders, and their labor, judgments, and bodies define the resulting contours of the American economy.
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Financial writer Deirdre Willard interviews Dr. Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor.
Additional Media Projects
WHAT HISTORIANS COULD TEACH SENATORS ON THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
Historians of women and gender understand that ideas about gender shape what counts as truth. Professors Ellen Hartigan O'Connor and Lisa G. Materson argue that contemporary politicians and commentators might look to the past to learn what they don’t know—that evidence has always been funneled through a process of creation, preservation, and interpretation—with gender and power shaping each step. Women’s voices matter; those who want to know their experiences must train themselves to hear them.
60 WOMEN WHO SHAPED THE NATIONAL PARKS SERVICE
Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa G. Materson and PhD student Ellie Kaplan spoke with Hawaii Public Radio about the National Parks Project, exploring how the notion that the country’s most beautiful places are preserved for everyone to enjoy overlooks a complicated history of imperialism, particularly of Indigenous women.
CONSULTANT: CALIFORNIA MUSEUM
Developed in collaboration with California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, this long-term exhibit features the stories of more than 250 Golden State women from the 1700s to present, who inspire change and reflection on the ongoing struggle for equality.
FRAMING THE AMERICAN PAST TO BETTER UNDERSTAND WOMEN & GENDER HISTORY
Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa G. Materson discuss The Oxford Handbook of American Women's and Gender History. They discuss transnationalism, women's lives and the boundaries of gender across three centuries in North America.
THE CASE FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY
This podcast episode introduces listeners to several stories of overlooked women in American History, as featured in The Oxford Handbook of American Women's and Gender History.
GRANT AWARD
UC Davis History Department won an AHA Career Diversity Grant to explore how better to prepare graduate students for meaningful careers.