Historian of women and gender, passionate pedagogue, doing history digitally.
For over twenty years, I have written about feminist activism and social change. In 2012 I started working in the digital humanities.
After receiving my doctorate in women’s history from the University of California at Los Angeles, I pursued an alternative academic career as the assistant director of the women’s leadership program at Mount St Mary’s College in Los Angeles where I also taught women’s studies and history and then as the director of the Women’s Center at William Paterson University of New Jersey holding a joint appointment as an assistant professor of history. I am now an associate professor of history at Rosemont College in Philadelphia teaching women’s and gender studies.
I sit on the American Historical Association’s Digital History Working Group and serve on the Journal of Women’s History editorial board.
Read my work or learn more about my digital history projects.
Professor Moravec, thank you so much for sharing your research processes publicly! I’m a doctoral candidate at Berkeley (Ethnic Studies) and am currently adjuncting at UT San Antonio (Women’s Studies). My WS students (Feminist Research Methodologies) and I “geeked out” on a visit to your site today. We especially love the fact that you sought out the names of the “Black panelists” to whom Lorde refers in her infamous commentary at the Second Sex conference! Thanks for your work!
In solidarity,
Sara A. Ramírez
Dear Michelle,
Thank you for all your work. Let me please ask you:
I am an anthropology PhD student from the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague. My project is directed to Lima, Peru. The subject: pregnancy and birth in different Liman districts and how they are formed/constructed by different socioeconomic environments, in a nutshell. I am heavily looking for contacts, studies, research, books, resources, etc. on this subject, anything. Would you please know of something, someone, anything.. I could turn to, ask, get to know, find out… ? I have already contacted some institutions and individuals, even Robiie Davies-Floyd – not much luck though .-) and have recently been downloading various material on the subject from the web, especially about the Peruvian violence on women, something on the history and the current situation de la mujer en Perú, working conditions of women, etc.
Or is there anyone/someone you could please refer me to?
Thank you very much.
Kind Regards,
martina