Monica L. Mercado

Expose Yourself! Research Talk

April 30, 2013May 13, 2013 Monica L. MercadoLeave a comment

This Thursday, May 2, I will speak about my research on nineteenth-century U.S. religious publishing and women readers as part of the University of Chicago’s Office of Graduate Student Affairs tour of Special Collections Research Center. For more on the evening’s program, visit Expose Yourself!

Closeted/Out in the Quadrangles on OUPblog

April 26, 2013May 16, 2013 Monica L. MercadoLeave a comment

I report on the progress of Closeted/Out in the Quadrangles: A LGBTQ History of the University of Chicago for The Oral History Review. To read my post, visit OUPblog.

Pride Week Luncheon

April 20, 2013May 16, 2013 Monica L. MercadoLeave a comment

As part of the University of Chicago’s Pride Week, undergraduate students at 5710 have organized a talk about the Closeted/Out project on Monday, April 22. If you’re interested in hearing more about the LGBT history of the University and how the upcoming exhibition project is shaping up, come join us! Lunch will be served.

More details and RSVP here.

Women’s History in a Digital World

April 1, 2013January 20, 2014 Monica L. Mercado1 Comment

Last month I took part in the inaugural Women’s History in the Digital World (#WHDigWrld) conference of The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education at Bryn Mawr College.

My paper, On Equal Terms? The Stakes of Archiving Women’s and LGBT History in the Digital Era, and many others have been archived in the Greenfield Digital Center repository and can be viewed online here. I’m looking forward to revisiting the many of the talks:

“Feminist Critique vs. Feminist Production in Digital Humanities,” keynote address by Laura Mandell (Texas A&M University),
“New Challenges in Digital History: Sharing Women’s History on Wikipedia,” Mia Ridge (Open University),
“Asking Big Questions with Digital Tools,” Michelle Moravec (Rosemont College), and
“Mining Hymns: Exploring Gendered Patterns in Religious Language,” Jeri Wieringa (George Mason University).

Michelle Moravec created a Storify to archive conference tweets and reflected on our weekend at her blog, History in the City.

For more on the conference, see Arden Kirkland’s post Women’s History, and…Metadata?!

“A Desire for History” in The University of Chicago Magazine

January 17, 2013May 13, 2013 Monica L. MercadoLeave a comment

Given my various research interests, I’m thrilled to see The University of Chicago Magazine feature on my LGBT history course paired with an article on Catholic women’s history in The Core supplement for Jan-Feb/13.

To read about my Spring 2012 course, “Queer on the Quads,” see A Desire For History.
To read about the University of Chicago’s 1967 proposal to affiliate with Barat College of the Sacred Heart, see Forgotten History: Planned Partnership.

“Queer Review” in The University of Chicago Magazine

January 10, 2013May 13, 2013 Monica L. MercadoLeave a comment

Did you know that Special Collections Research Center has a great collection of pulp novels? The University of Chicago Magazine writer Betsy Station profiles one of my favorite primary source assignments in the Jan-Feb/13 “Original Source” column: “Queer Review.”

AHA 2013 – Woman’s Rights and Use of Space

December 1, 2012February 26, 2014 Monica L. MercadoLeave a comment

My paper From ‘Summer School Girls’ to ‘Progressive Women’ has been added to AHA Session 225, “Out of Place: Woman’s Rights and Use of Space in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Anglo-American World,” organized by Lauren Santangelo (The Graduate Center, CUNY).