Lauren Eglen

Thesis title:

The Heart of the Collective': Black Women's Activism and Freedomways Magazine, 1961-1985

Research Area

History

Conferences

Conferences (Presented at)

2018

The Radical Repercussions of Respectability: The Activism of Dr Dorothy Height', HOTCUS Winter Symposium, February 2018

Race and the American Working Mother: African American Women's Social Activism Between the Waves, 1930-1965, EBASS 2018, April 2018

Making Space: Black Women's Activism in Freedomways Magazine, 1961-1985', SHAW Society 2018 Annual Conference, July 2018

2019

Black Women's Internationalism in the Pages of FreedomwaysMagazine, 1961-1985', HOTCUS Conference 2019, June 2019

2020

"We had a world-wide approach to the struggle": Articulating a Black Women’s International in Freedomways Magazine, 1961-1985” , AAIHS 2020, March 2020

Conferences (organised)

British Association of American Studies Postgraduate Conference 2019, December 2019

Public Engagement & Impact

Lead organiser of the M4C funded Race, Gender and Sexuality (RaGeS) Writing Retreat, 2019

IHR / Museum of Youth Culture 'Setting the Record Straight' Research Internship, Summer 2020

Other Research Interests

Twentieth Century US Social Movements;
Civil Rights Movement;
Black Power Movement;
Women's Liberation;
Feminist Activism ;
African American History;
Women's History;
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking.

Memberships

Historians of the Twentieth Century US (HOTCUS)

British Association of American Studies (BAAS)