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Kathryn Patterson

Graduate Student
Fields/Specialties
20th Century U.S.
Women and Gender
Public History

Education

MA, History, with a concentration in Public History, Florida State University, 2023
BS, History and Government, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, 2020

Publications

“Florida and the ERA: The Second Wave’s Crash on Florida’s Sunny Shores,” Florida Conference of Historians, vol. 27 of FCH Annals. (Feb. 2021)

Research

My research explores the transference of women's feelings about themselves and their circumstance to their political and cultural work, particularly women involved in the 1970s debate over the Equal Rights Amendment. I focus on emotion as a tool to understand memory formation within the women's liberation movement and to parse the resulting tensions of those bonds and fractures that still rest at the core of 21st century partisan divides in the U.S.