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Phyllis Lefller, director of the institute of public history at the University of Virginia, discusses the project of collecting the history of 9,500 women at the University of Virginia from 1920 to 1972.
Doctor Eugene A. Foster discusses his role as the organizer of the chromosomal research on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings to determine the paternity of her children.
Gweneth West, associate professor in the drama department at the University of Virginia, discusses the practice of Costume Design and its connection to historical and cultural contexts.
Mary Rorty, professor of philosophy and bioethics at the University of Virginia, discusses bio-medical ethics as a movement that began in the 1960s and its recent institutionalization.
Kate Doyle, member of the National Security Archives, discusses the series, Human Rights Guatemala: A Nation Toward Peace, that focused on human right violations from 1960-1996.
Ellen Phipps is a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist and the Director of the Adult Day Care at Jefferson Area Board for Aging (JABA) in Charlottesville discusses how caring for an elderly adult is a women's issue in regards to assistance as well as care giving.
Lisa Eorio, research scientist at the University of Virginia, discusses the gender wage gaps and her dissertation focused on theory of Human Capital. Her research finds that women were obtaining less wage compensation, and concentrated in lower paying industries.
Xiaolin Li was born in mainland China and obtained her PhD from the University of Maryland focusing on women in the military; in this episode she discusses Mulan and the history of women warriors in China.