Experts in the Field of Women's History and Rights

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Katrina Jagodinsky is Susan J. Rosowski Professor of History. She is a legal historian examining marginalized peoples’ engagement with nineteenth-century legal regimes and competing jurisdictions throughout the North American West. She has published a book and a number of articles and essays that examine the efforts of Indigenous and mixed-race women and children to leverage the American legal system in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Jagodinsky holds a Ph.D. in History (2011) and M.A. in American Indian Studies (2004) from the University of Arizona, and she earned her B.A. (2002) from Lawrence University.

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Kang is the author of “Bargaining for Women’s Rights (2015),” which analyzed gender relations in Muslim-majority nations. In some cases Muslim women have won new rights to political participation, reproductive health and education, while in others their efforts have been stymied. Kang specializes in comparative politics with an emphasis on Africa.