Liette Gidlow

Faculty Profile

Professor
bb2794@wayne.edu

Department

History

Phone

313-577-2525

Fax

313-577-6987

Office

3103 Faculty/Administration Building

Biography

Professor Gidlow is an expert on U.S. politics since the Civil War, especially woman suffrage and the Nineteenth Amendment, voting rights and voter turnout, and African American electoral politics. She earned a Ph.D. in U.S. history from Cornell University, a master's degree in history from Ohio State, and a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Chicago. Before joining academe she worked as a legislative staffer in the U.S. Congress and as chief of staff to a member of the Ohio Senate.

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Selected publications

Books

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  • “Woman Suffrage, Women’s Votes.” In A Companion to U.S. Women's History, eds. Nancy Hewitt and Anne Valk, 2e. (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 193-208
  • “After the ‘Century of Struggle’: The Nineteenth Amendment, Southern African American Women, and the Problem of Female Disfranchisement After 1920.” In Suffrage at 100: Women in American Politics Since 1920, eds. Leandra Zarnow and Stacie Taranto (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020): 75-89
  • Guest editor, Journal of Women's History, special forum on “What Difference Did the Nineteenth Amendment Make?,” vol. 32, no.1 (Spring 2020)
  • “More than Double: African American Women and the Rise of a Women’s Vote.” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 32 no. 1 (Spring 2020)
  • “Forum: Interchange – Women’s Suffrage, the Nineteenth Amendment, and the Right to Vote.” Journal of American History, vol. 106, no. 3 (Dec. 2019), 662-94
  • “A Crack in the Edifice of White Supremacy.” Modern American History, vol. 2, no. 3 (Nov. 2019)
  • "Beyond 1920: Legacies of the Woman Suffrage Movement." In Tamara Gaskell, ed., The Nineteenth Amendment and Women's Access to the Vote Across America (Washington, D.C.:  U.S. National Park Service, 2019).  
  • "The Sequel: The Fifteenth Amendment, the Nineteenth Amendment, and Southern Black Women's Struggle to Vote, 1890s-1920s." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, vol. 17, no. 3 (July 2018)
  • "The Michigan Women’s Commission and the Struggle Against Sex Discrimination in the 1970s." In The History of Michigan Law, eds. Paul Finkelman and Martin Hershock (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006). Winner of the Historical Society of Michigan's 2006 State History Award; designated a 2007 Michigan Notable Book
  • "Delegitimizing Democracy: 'Civic Slackers,' the Cultural Turn, and the Possibilities of Politics." Journal of American History 89 (December 2002): 922-957

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Other qualifications directly relevant to courses taught

Wayne State University President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2019

Research Description

Professor Gidlow specializes in the history of politics, women and gender, and consumer culture in the twentieth century United States. She is currently researching a new book on the disfranchisement of American women after the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1920 granted them suffrage.

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