Research Symposium

BIO

Lauryn is a first-year sophomore, double majoring in International Affairs and Political Science with minors in German and Philosophy. In her short time here at Florida State, she has already gotten involved with SGA and currently holds a leadership position in the Student Senate. When she's not doing research, you can probably find her training for her latest triathlon or reading in her hammock. Lauryn also works as a Trip Leader for Outdoor Pursuits, FSU’s outdoor recreation program, where she gets to combine her love for hiking and the outdoors with her passion for connecting with others. Lauryn plans to further her research career this summer at University College London, where she will be intensively studying Foreign Policy and Human Rights in the heart of England. After graduating in the Spring of 2025, Lauryn is planning to do a few years with the Peace Corps before attending law school.

The Relationship between the Women’s Rights Movement and Collegiate Education

Abstract

Abstract
In elementary, middle, and high school literacy instruction in America, female teachers and administrators make up a large majority of the workforce, and historians of higher education topics can, more or less, access their work, However, when it comes to recovering the careers of women in literacy instruction at the collegiate level, records are harder to come by if the women did not publish. Moreover, fewer than 10% of female educators in literacy instruction at the college level were women of color between 1890 and 1950, without even representation or stable archives. Linked Women Pedagogues (LWP) is a data discovery tool that uses several workflows to trace the intellectual influence of underrepresented women and women of color who taught in literacy studies from the late nineteenth through the middle twentieth centuries. While the LWP workflows consider various ways of searching born-digital tools, they do not yet consider correlations between women’s intellectual mobility and other national events, such as Women’s Suffrage. To contribute to the LWP project workflows, I used broad-reaching data tools such as the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) and WorldCat, in order to locate information about the institutions where pedagogues taught, whether and where they published, and where their work might have circulated beyond their initial place of work, in and around the American Suffrage movement. I then mapped this information onto a timeline with selected women's rights events in order to observe the correlation between pedagogues and Suffrage activity.

Keywords: digital research, feminism, data analysis