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Vintage Red.Docx, Rowan Cahill

Rowan Cahill

Mental Health Memories: A Web-Based Archive For Mental Health Stories, Amanda E. Castro

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

The Mental Health Memories project is an online archive created in order to display and preserve the personal histories of those with mental health experiences. The project aims to fill a void in available material culture related to the history of mental health and its preservation. Participants’ contributions include: oral histories, personal items, documents, and audio. Bringing together multimedia sources, the MHMemories website allows for the preservation of these items and stories through the digitization of contributions. This method allows for participants’ items to stay in their possession while also becoming part of the archive. In order to recruit participants, …

Interview With Millicent Goldschmidt, Millicent Goldscmidt Ph.D.

Texas Medical Center - Women's History Project

An oral history interview with Millicent Goldschmidt about her career at University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) where she has held faculty positions in the Department of Diagnostic and Biomedical Sciences at UTHealth School of Dentistry, UTHealth Medical School, and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Millicent Edna Goldschmidt, Ph.D., came to the Texas Medical Center after an educational journey that included parental objections and a husband’s ethical concerns about research.

Once in Houston, her professional journey took her to almost every institution in the Texas Medical Center – from Baylor College of Medicine to The University …

Interview With Melinda Perrin, Melinda H. Perrin

Texas Medical Center - Women's History Project

An oral history interview with Melinda Perrin about her career in the Texas Medical Center and work on the board of Hermann Hospital and later Memorial Hermann Healthcare System.

Melinda Hill Perrin was born into a family known for the leadership it has provided both the city of Houston and the state of Texas. Her father John Hill served as the Texas’ secretary of state, then attorney general and finally Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court. Her work in the community and the non-profit sector led to her selection as a member of the Board of Hermann Hospital during …

Interview With Margaret Carter Mcneese, Margaret Carter Mcneese M.D.

Texas Medical Center - Women's History Project

An oral history interview with Margaret Carter McNeese about her career in the Department of Pediatrics at the Univeristy of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School.

Dr. McNeese’s undergraduate years were spent at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia. She went to medical school at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, where she began her career as a physician and pediatrician. She has been a recipient of many awards, among them the UT Health Science Center at Houston’s President’s Award for Mentoring Women; the Catholic Charity Guild Award for service at the San Jose Clinic, the …

Interview With Diana Chow, Diana Shu-Lian Chow Ph.D.

Texas Medical Center - Women's History Project

Diana Shu-Lian Chow, Ph.D., is an outstanding researcher at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy, where she began her career in 1981. She has authored or co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, three book chapters and more than 200 abstracts presented at national and international scientific conference or meetings. She is the editor of the British Journal of Pharmacology, editorial board member for the Journal of Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy and a reviewer for more than a dozen journals.

She holds more than 10 U.S. and international patents, and in 2009, the Houston Intellectual Property Law Association …

Interview With Kathryn Peek, Kathryn Elaine Peek Ph.D.

Texas Medical Center - Women's History Project

An oral history interview with Kathryn Elaine Hickman Peek about her career as a biomedical administrator and educator at many institutions in the Texas Medical Center.

Kathryn Elaine Peek, Ph.D. completed her bachelor’s degree in English and embarked on a first career as a public school teacher. She obtained master’s degrees in biology and behavioral sciences at the University of Houston and UH Clear Lake during two stays in the Houston area. She entered the University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at what is now the McGovern Medical School at the age of 39. She graduated with a …

P28. Canadian Jewish Women And Girls On The Homefront, 1939-1945, Jennifer Shaw

Western Research Forum

Background: The following presentation explores the roles and experiences of Canadian Jewish women on the Canadian homefront during World War Two. Despite knowing much about the lives of women in this time period in general, we do not know much about the experiences of particular groups, and how they differed from the majority of women.

Methods: Using first-hand accounts gathered from Canadian Jewish women, as well as archival materials, this presentation explores the different ways Jewish women and girls participated in the war effort and experienced the war years.

Results: While acknowledging that some of their experiences …

Naturalized Women And Womanized Earth: Connecting The Journeys Of Womanhood And The Earth, From The Early Modern Era To The Industrial Revolution, Maggie Rose Berke

Senior Projects Spring 2017

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.