Patricia Schechter

Patricia Schechter


Professor

History - Liberal Arts & Sciences

Office
CH 441E
Phone
(503) 725-3007

Fields of Expertise

women's history; public history; transnationalhistory

Current Research

Digital and Public History Projects

, exhibit 2019

: Paintings, Drawings and Embroideries by Rosemarie Beck2015

: Culture, Community & Activism Across Four Generations of Black Oregonians2012

: The CACO Oral History Project2009

Publications

"Madre y Matríz: The Politics of Town-Making in Cordoba, 1887-1905,"vol. 44, issue 1 (2019): Iberia in Entangled and Transnational Contexts,article 6.

"A History of Colonial Inscription: 'The Wedding' and 'The Buddy Story' in Oklahoma Statehood Commemorations,"vol. 21, no. 1 (March 2018): 1-21.

“A Seriously Playful Pedagogy for Gertrude Stein’s Late, Great Opera, 'The Mother of Us All.'”Teaching Gertrude Stein, eds. Logan Esdale and Deborah M. Mix. Modern Language Association, 2018.

"A Feminist Case for the Decolonial," Special Issue ofon decolonial and postcolonial approaches, vol. 43, no. 3 (2017): 646-655.

“Feminist Historiography, Anti-Imperialism, and the Decolonial.”Empire's Twin: Anti-Imperialism from the Founding Era to the Age of Terrorism, eds.Jay Sexton and Ian Tyrrell. Cornell University Press, 2015.

Exploring the Decolonial Imaginary: Four Transnational Lives.Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Remembering the Power of Words: The Life of an Oregon Activist, Legislator, and Community Leader. An oral memoir of Avel Louise Gordly.Oregon State University Press, 2011.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930. University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Courses

  • HST 340 Women and Gender in America to 1848
  • HST 341 Women and Gender in the United States, 1848-1920
  • HST 342 Women and Gender in the United States, 1920 to present
  • HST 343 American Family History
  • HST 369 Women in World History - The Iberian Atlantic
  • HST 413/513 Topics in Transnationalism
  • HST 491-2/591-2 Readings and Research in Women's History
  • HST 495/595 Public History Lab
Education
  • PhD
    Princeton University