As of October 2024:
EDUCATION
Ph.D., History, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, 2013
Dissertation: “Making Connections in Viet Nam: U.S. Women’s Transnational Activism and the Meanings of Race, Gender, and Revolution, 1965-1975”
M.A., History, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, 2009
B.A.B.S., Mathematics and Spanish, Regis University, Denver, Colorado, 2003
Thesis: “The Feminist Movement in Spain: From the Beginning of the Second Republic to the Beginning of the Franco Regime”
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020-Present Associate Professor, Joint in Departments of Gender and Women’s Studies and History, University of Rhode Island
2015-2020 Assistant Professor, Joint in Departments of History and Marine Affairs and the Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Rhode Island
2013-2015 Visiting Assistant Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Rhode Island
SELECT FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, & AWARDS
2024 COIL/Virtual Education Curriculum Development Award, Office of Global Initiatives, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2024 Project Completion Grant, Research and Creative Activities Committee, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2024 Dean’s Opportunity Grant, Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2023 Dean’s Summer Fellowship, Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2023 Global Mobility Grant, Provost’s Office, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island (Declined)
2021-2022 Beatrice S. Demers Foreign Language Fellowship, Rhode Island Foundation, Providence, Rhode Island
2020-2023 Faculty Career Enhancement Grant, Research and Creative Activities Committee, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2019 Winnie Collaborative Research Grant, Center for the Humanities, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2019 Mini Grant, Rhode Island Center for the Humanities, Providence, Rhode Island
2018 Faculty Research Grant, Center for the Humanities, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2018 Women’s Antiwar Diplomacy during the Viet Nam War Era named Outstanding Academic Title for 2017 by CHOICE magazine
2016 Subvention Grant, Center for the Humanities, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2014 Lerner-Scott Prize Finalist for Best Dissertation in U.S. Women’s History, Organization of American Historians
2013-2014 Moore Fellowship, Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
“Formidable Foremothers of Transnational Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” (book manuscript in progress)
Women’s Antiwar Diplomacy during the Viet Nam War Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017).
Media Attention for Women’s Antiwar Diplomacy:
Kelsie Eckert and Brooke Sullivan, “Why were women drawn into the Anti-Vietnam Movement with Dr. Jessica Frazier,” Remedial Herstory: the other 50% of history class, (February 21, 2022) <https://anchor.fm/remedialherstory/episodes/S2E28-Why-were-women-drawn-into-the-Anti-Vietnam-Movement-with-Dr–Jessica-Frazier-e1e7i9q/a-a7cod03>.
James Springer, “Women in combat, from World War II anti-Nazi Greek resistance to Viet Cong to Syrian Kurdish militia,” South China Morning Post, (May 22, 2020) <https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/3085401/world-war-ii-anti-nazi-greek-resistance-viet-cong-syrian-kurdish-militia>.
Sarah McConnell, Voices of Vietnam, Episode 3: Women of War, Part 6: War Wives & Resistance, With Good Reason (October 6, 2018) <https://www.withgoodreasonradio.org/vietnam/>.
“Networks, News, and Activism,” UNC Press Blog (March 22, 2017) <https://uncpressblog.com/2017/03/22/jessica-m-frazier-networks-news-activism/>.
Refereed Journal Articles:
“Challenging Feminist Stereotypes: Nawal El Saadawi’s Creation of Transnational Solidarity at the UN’s Mid-Decade Conference,” Journal of Women’s History 36, no. 3 (Fall 2024): 51-70.
“Collaborative Efforts to End the War in Viet Nam: The Interactions of Women Strike for Peace, the Vietnamese Women’s Union, and the Women’s Union of Liberation, 1965-1968,” Peace and Change, 37, no. 3 (July 2012): 339-365.
Chapters in Edited Collections:
“Antiwar Sentiment, International Relationships, and 1960s Social Movements” in The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, Volume III: Endings & Legacies, eds. Lien-Hang T. Nguyen and Pierre Asselin (in press, Cambridge University Press, 2024/2025).
“Women’s Migration and Transnational Solidarity in the Twentieth Century,” in The Cambridge History of Global Migration, Volume II, co-authored with Johanna Leinonen, eds. Marcelo Borges and Madeline Hsu (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023).
“From the Classroom to the Public: Engaging Students in Human Rights History,” in The Routledge History of Human Rights, eds. Jean Quataert and Lora Wildenthal (New York: Routledge, 2019), 638-649.
Reviews:
“You Say You Want a Revolution . . . ,” Review of Red Internationalism: Anti-Imperialism and Human Rights in the Global Sixties and Seventies, Salar Mohandesi, Diplomatic History 48, no. 4 (September 2024): 610-613.
Feminist Foreign Policy in Theory and Practice: An Introduction, Stephenie Foster and Susan Markham, H-Diplomacy (March 2024).
“Workers of the World United . . . Behind American Labor Feminists,” Review of For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Diplomatic History (June 2022).
A Simple Justice: Kentucky Women Fight for the Vote, Melanie Beals Goan, CHOICE 59, no. 4 (December 2021)
Saigon at War: South Vietnam and the Global Sixties, Heather Marie Stur, H-Diplomacy (March 2021).
Protest on Trial: The Seattle 7 Conspiracy, Kit Bakke, Western Historical Quarterly (May 2020).
The Girls next door: bringing the home front to the front lines, Kara Dixon Vuic, CHOICE, 56, no. 11 (July 2019).
American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War, Jennifer Helgren, American Historical Review (April 2018): 613-614.
The Draft and the Vietnam Generation, directed by Beth Sanders, The Sixties, 10, no. 2 (December 2017): 253–54.
Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century, eds. Ruth Barraclough, Heather Bowen-Struyk, and Paula Rabinowitz, The Journal of American History 103, no. 3 (December 2016): 800-801.
Reference Works:
“Women and the US War in Vietnam.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, June 25, 2018. <http://americanhistory.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-494>.
“Transnational Diplomacy.” Edited by Roger Peace. United States Foreign Policy History and Resource Guide, July 2017. <http://peacehistory-usfp.org/vietnam-war/>.
“Women Strike for Peace,” Encyclopedia of American Women’s History, ed. Hasia R. Diner, (New York: Facts on File, 2012).
News Articles and Commentaries:
“The Best Books on Women and the US war in Vietnam,” Shepherd, August 2021. <https://shepherd.com/best-books/women-and-the-us-war-in-vietnam>.
“Perspective | Fights among Feminists Aren’t a Sign of the Movement’s Weakness. They’re a Sign of Its Strength.” Washington Post (January 15, 2018) sec. Made by History, <https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/01/15/fights-among-feminists-arent-a-sign-of-the-movements-weakness-theyre-a-sign-of-its-strength/>.
INVITED TALKS
2024 “US Women’s Rights Activism, 1874-1924,” Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Lecture for Secondary Education Teachers, Southbury, CT, February 16
2022 “Building a Just World,” P.I.N.K. Unsung Heroines Award Ceremony, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, April 22
2021 “Developing Transnational Feminist Consciousness in the 1970s,” Modern U.S. History Workshop, SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, New York, November 19
2020 “Margaret Randall, Transnational Solidarity, and the Center for Southwest Research,” Retrieving the Real History: Exploring the Margaret Randall Archives at UNM Symposium, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 28
2019 “Establishing Feminist Perspectives on the Vietnam War,” Dana Shugar Lecture, Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, September 26
2019 “Women and Peace Movements in the Twentieth Century,” Rhode Island College, North Providence, Rhode Island, March 28
2019 “Establishing Feminist Perspectives on the Vietnam War,” Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut, March 7
SELECT CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Panels Organized:
2020 “Bringing Women’s and Gender History to the Public: Bridging Divides between Pedagogy, Scholarship, and Public Engagement,” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, May 28-31, Co-organized with Shelley Rose and Sandra Sanchez-Lopez (accepted, conference canceled due to COVID-19)
2017 “Beyond Ecofeminism: Women and Their Environments,” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Hofstra University, Long Island, New York, June 1-4, Co-organized with Kera Lovell
2016 “Thriving in the Doldrums: Complicating Women’s Political, Social, and Labor Organizing,” Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, April 7-10
Chair, Commentator, or Moderator:
2018 Moderator, “Intersectional Feminism,” Cocktails and Conversations, Women’s Fund of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island, September 20
2018 Commentator, “Dr. Spock and Donna Reed: Parental Figures, Peace Groups, and Protest Against the Vietnam War,” Upstate Modern U.S. History Workshop, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, March 9
Papers Presented:
2025 “Trends in Anti-Vietnam War Literature,” Upcoming Annual American Historical Association Meeting, New York, New York Jan 3-6
2024 “Developing a Transnational Black Feminist Coalition: Loretta Ross at the Nairobi Conference in 1985,” Transnational Activisms: Reimagining Boundaries in Political Cultural Production Conference, University College, Dublin, March 25-26
2023 “Seeking Solidarity: Nawal El Saadawi’s Advocacy for Women’s Rights,” National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, October 26-29
2023 “Analyzing the Status of Women: Devaki Jain’s Challenge to Development Experts,” Women Scientists, Development and Environmental Citizenship Conference, University of Trieste, Italy, April 20-21
2022 “Challenging Feminist Stereotypes: Nawal El Saadawi’s Creation of Transnational in the 1970s and 1980s,” Body, Medicine, and Feminism: The Life and Work of Nawal El Saadawi, Middle East Studies Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, April 7-8 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96wkuoUsJs8
2020 “Taking Knowledge to the Public: Digital Assignments in Social Movements Courses,” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, May 28-31 (accepted, conference canceled due to COVID-19)
2019 “International Inspiration for Local and National Activism: African American Loretta Ross and UN Conferences in the late 20th Century,” Women’s Leadership Symposium, Somerville College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, December 4-6
2019 “Contested Spaces in International Women’s Organizing,” URI Humanities Festival, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, April 4
2018 “The Kavanaugh-Ford Hearings: The Politics of Gender, #MeToo, and Justice,” Teach-In Participant, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, October 3
2018 “Equality, Development, and Peace: Women’s International Organizing after the UN Decade for Women,” Global Status of Women and Girls, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia, March 22-24
2017 “Appealing to American Publics during the Vietnam War,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, Arlington, Virginia, June 22-25
2017 “Gender, the Environment, and International Development,” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Hofstra University, Long Island, New York, June 1-4
2017 “Establishing People’s Diplomatic Ties,” Vietnam Center and Archive Conference, Lubbock, Texas, April 28-29
2016 “Community Solutions: Women Inside and Outside the Government,” Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, April 7-10
2015 “People’s Diplomacy, Gender, and the POW Issue during the Viet Nam War,” New England History Association Conference, New Haven, Connecticut, October 24
2014 “Cold War Solutions: Race and Gender during the Viet Nam War Era,” Capitalism & Socialism Conference, New Harmony, Indiana, November 6-8
2014 “Sharing the Burden of War: American Women in Hanoi during the Vietnam War Era,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, June 19-21
2014 “The Second Wave and the Cold War at an International Conference,” Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 10-13
2014 “From New York to Hanoi: Witnessing War to Garner Support,” Resisting War in the 20th Century International Conference, Lisboa, Portugal, February 27-March 1
2013 “Crossing Movement and National Borders: The Antiwar Efforts of Women’s Liberationists, 1969-1972,” Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 21-24
2013 “U.S. Women of Color, the ‘Third World,’ and the Viet Nam War,” Women’s History Month Conference, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, March 1-2
2013 “Looking for Camaraderie in Viet Nam: African American Women and the Freedom Movement,” Triangle African American History Colloquium, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, February 15-16
SELECT TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Rhode Island:
Environmental Justice (Graduate and undergraduate levels)
Gender, Race, and Human Rights
International Women’s Issues
Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies
Introduction to U.S. Women’s History Since 1890
Transnational Feminism(s) (Graduate level)
The Vietnam War Era (capstone course)
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2018-2020 Co-PI, Public Memory, Place and Belonging on Block Island, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2009-2010 Research Assistant, Women and Social Movements – International Edition, 1840-2000, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
2024-Present Nominating Committee, New England Historical Association
2024 Book Proposal Reviewer, Oxford University Press
2024 Book Manuscript Reviewer, University of Massachusetts Press
2024 Scientific Committee, 3rd International Conference on Women, Bangalore, India
2022 Lesson Plan Reviewer, Remedial Herstory: the other 50% of history class
2022 Book Manuscript Reviewer, Cornell University Press
2021-Present Co-Editor, Journal of Feminist Scholarship
2021 Article Reviewer, Journal of Cold War Studies
2021 Article Reviewer, Diplomatic History
2020 Article Reviewer, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism
2019 Book Proposal Reviewer, Routledge
2018-2020 H-Women Network Editor
2018 Book Proposal Reviewer, MIT Press
2016-Present Article Reviewer, Peace and Change
2014-Present Article Reviewer, Journal of Women’s History
2011-2012 Editorial Hourly Employee, Journal of Women’s History, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
GRADUATE COMMITTEE SERVICE
Advisor:
Katherine Canfield
Berenice Yang-Gonzalez
Committee Member:
Sussan Aguilar
Danielle Bilecki
Lauren Call
Alanna Casey
Adrian Cato
Jackson Cox
Rennie Meyers
Elizabeth Smith
Outside Member:
Sarah Bowen
Andrew Polta
Wesley Hale
HONORS PROJECT SERVICE
Sponsor:
Hannah Eddleston
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
2024 Gutchen Prize Committee, History Department, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2024 Chair, Department Chair Search Committee, Gender and Women’s Studies Department, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2023-2024 Black Feminisms VAP Search Committee, Gender and Women’s Studies Department, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2023 Annual Review Letter Writer, Gender and Women’s Studies Department, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2022-2023 Chair, East Asian History Search Committee, History Department, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2018 Graduate Certificate Committee, Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2016 Department Chair Search Committee, Marine Affairs Department, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2015-Present Graduate Student Admissions Committee, Marine Affairs Department, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2015 Patricia Farnes Essay Contest Committee, Gender and Women’s Studies Program, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2014-2015 Coastal Tourism and Sustainability Search Committee, Marine Affairs Department, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2011-2012 Graduate Student Employee Union Representative, Graduate History Society, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
2010-2011 Treasurer, Graduate History Society, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
2009-2010 Professional Development Committee Representative, Graduate History Society, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2021-Present Executive Committee, American Association of University Professors, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2021 All-University Collective Bargaining Committee, American Association of University Professors, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2020 Long Rhode to the Vote, Suffrage Centennial Celebration Committee, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2019-2020 Chair, Bylaws and Review Committee, College of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2018 Undergraduate Fellows Poster Session Judge, College of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2018 Membership Committee, American Association of University Professors, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2017 Undergraduate Fellows Poster Session Judge, College of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2017 All-University Collective Bargaining Committee, American Association of University Professors, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
2016-2017 Environmental Justice Speakers Series, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, Co-organized with Amelia Moore
2015-2019 Bylaws and Review Committee, College of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
Jessica M. Frazier, PhD 