Katherine Jellison

Education

• Ph.D. in History from the University of Iowa

Research Interests

• U.S. History
• Women and Gender
• Social History

Katherine Jellison earned her Ph.D. at the University of Iowa, where she studied with one of the pioneers in the field of U.S. women’s history, Linda K. Kerber. She has received numerous research grants and fellowships and is an Ohio University Presidential Research Scholar. Jellison is the author of Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 (University of North Carolina Press, 1993), It’s Our Day: America’s Love Affair with the White Wedding, 1945-2005 (University Press of Kansas, 2008), and, with Steven D. Reschly, Amish Women and the Great Depression (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023). She is also the author of many journal articles and book chapters and frequently provides commentary on gender and politics in The New York Times and The Washington Post and on CNN, NPR, and the BBC.

Publications

• Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963 (University of North Carolina Press, 1993).
• It’s Our Day: America’s Love Affair with the White Wedding, 1945-2005 (University Press of Kansas, 2008).
• Amish Women and the Great Depression (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023), with Steven D. Reschly.

Teaching

• HIST 2010: U.S. History since 1865
• HIST 3170: Survey of Ohio History
• HIST 3200: Women in American History before 1877
• HIST 3201: Women in American History since 1877
• HIST 3220: 1960s in the United States
• HIST 3900: History through Film

Jellison has won several teaching honors at Ohio University, including the Excellence in Feminist Pedagogy Award, the University Professor Award, the Jeannette G. Grasselli Brown Faculty Teaching Award in the Social Sciences, and designation as a Fellow in the Charles J. Ping Institute for the Teaching of the Humanities.