Kathleen B. Casey is the author of The Prettiest Girl on Stage is a Man: Race and Gender Benders in American Vaudeville and is currently writing her second book, The Things She Carried: Women and the Power of the Purse, under contract with Oxford University Press. She has also published in Gender & History, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, the Journal of American Culture and Ms. Magazine.
Dr. Casey earned her PhD in History with a graduate certificate in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Rochester in 2010. She was born in Massachusetts, raised in upstate New York, worked at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Virginia Wesleyan University, and is now based in Greenville, South Carolina at Furman University.
Recent Media
“Teaching the Deep Roots of Abortion in America,” Ms. Magazine
Five months after the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson, I published an op-ed in Ms. Magazine about the history of abortion in America.