Wednesday, Sept. 20, Cathleen Cahill will lecture in the Elliot Student Union, room 240 at 7 p.m.

The lecture is called “Who Fought for Women’s Suffrage: A More Diverse View,” and will discuss the centennial of the women’s suffrage movement in America, and the protest of women voting throughout history.

Cathleen Cahill is an associate professor of history at Pennsylvania State University and lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. This lecture is part of Cahill’s larger project called “Joining the Parade: Women of Color Challenge the Mainstream Suffrage Movement,” that investigates the “alternative genealogies of feminism.” Cahill examines the participation of African American, Indigenous, Chinese American and Hispanic women in the fight for women’s suffrage before and after the 19th amendment. As a social historian, Cahill focuses on women’s working and political lives. She examines how identities such as race, nationality, class and age have shaped them as individuals and studies these movements to reveal women in interesting roles.

Cahill’s lecture at UCM coincides with the campus celebration of Constitution week centered on the theme of “Protest Changed America.”

“A constitutional guarantee for women’s right to vote emerged as a key demand of the women’s rights movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries,” said Sara Brooks Sundberg, UCM professor of history. “Dr. Cahill’s research complicates the standard image of that movement, reminding us that it took a plurality of voices in protest to make the women’s vote a reality.”

Cahill’s lecture is funded by a grant from the Missouri Humanities Council, with support from UCM department of history, sociology, anthropology, cross disciplinary studies and the American Democracy Project.