Speaker
Kimberly Hamlin
Associate Professor of History, Global & Intercultural Studies, Miami University
Kimberly A. Hamlin, Ph.D., is an award-winning historian, speaker, and writer. Her book - Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener - reveals the fascinating story of the “fallen woman†who reinvented herself and became the “most potent factor†in Congressional passage of the 19th Amendment. Free Thinker received support from a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award and the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics. Appointed to the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer Bureau, Kimberly speaks about the history of women, gender, and sex across the country. A regular contributor to the Washington Post, her research has also been featured in NPR and CBC radio, Vice , qz.com, among other outlets, and she has contributed to several PBS documentaries. Kimberly is currently helping to organize commemorations of the 2020 suffrage centennial, and she serves as historical consultant to the Bearded Lady Project, now on view at the National Museum of Natural History. She co-hosts the Mercantile Library’s “Women You Should Know†Book Series in Cincinnati and teaches at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.