A short video chronicle of a student journey on a project about women’s erasures from history. Inspired by Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, young women from Wisconsin embraced local archives to express their critical ideas.
Krista Grensavitch
Krista Grensavitch, Ph.D. is a lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies, History, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Her research explores the intersection of Feminist Pedagogy, Material Culture Theory, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). Responding to the so-called ‘Material Turn’ within the discipline of history and, more widely, in the humanities, she argues that continuing the work of bell hooks’ engaged pedagogy, which places an emphasis on developing and maintaining well-being, is best done by incorporating objects in teaching and learning. Drawing from her own teaching experience, Krista explores and complicates ideas relating to authority, unknowability, and identity within the higher ed humanities classroom. By presenting her research and dissertation in various formats, including video, text, and audio, she hopes to ensure that the ideas and insights she offers are accessible and transferable.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey