19th at 100: Commemorating the Suffrage Struggle and its Legacies in Cleveland
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox (Department of History)
Freedman Faculty Fellow 2019–2020
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department. She holds a PhD in History from New York University (2014) in modern U.S history, with a particular focus on women's and gender history. Her research examines the connections between fashion, politics, and modernity, and she is currently working on her book manuscript: Dressed for Freedom: The Fashionable Politics of American Feminism. Einav has published on fashion, femininity, advertising, and feminism in academic journals and books, as well as public venues such as Public Seminar, the Conversation, On the Media, and Dismantle Magazine. In addition, Einav is a public historian engaged in curatorial and digital projects that seek to bring history to broad audiences. Among her positions, she was the inaugural Wade Postdoctoral Fellow at the Western Reserve Historical Society, and served as a co-curator for an exhibition commemorating the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.19th at 100 is a curatorial project that celebrates the centennial of the passing of the 19thAmendment to the U.S. Constitution that granted women the right to vote. By producing a physical exhibition that will be complemented with a digital website and an educational database, this project will showcase the long history of the struggle for suffrage, giving special attention to the local angle of Cleveland and the region. 19that 100 is a collaborative project between students and faculty, designed as a course to be taught in the spring of 2020 that will provide a hands-on experience with exhibit curation and digital tools. It is designed to make the history of the struggle for suffrage and its legacies available to students and scholars at the CWRU community and beyond.
