In this talk, Professor Rachel Hope Cleves, from the University of Victoria, will discuss her experiences unearthing the histories of sex and gender in archives large and small, and how she turns those archival discoveries into award-winning articles and books.
This talk is presented with additional support from Dinse.
Silhouettes of Sylvia Drake and Charity Bryant of Weybridge, Vermont, circa 1805–15. Collection of the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History.
Best known for her 2014 book Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America, which she researched at the Henry Sheldon Museum, Rachel Hope Cleves has also researched and written about a teenage female poet of the American Revolution, a gender-bending woman educator from 19th-century Illinois, a notorious British writer of the early 20th century, and further research that sheds new light on the history of sex and gender.
Explore the rest of the “Elephant in the Room” series here.
The “Elephant in the Room” lecture series is presented with support from Vermont Humanities.
