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2025 Graduate Student Scholar
Amanda Smith is a Ph.D. student in Art History and Visual Culture Education at the University of Arizona. She earned a B.A. in Art and Museum Studies at Arizona State University and has recently served as co-curator of the exhibition 'Where we go together' in Tucson. Her doctoral project examines how trauma-informed design can offer new ways to interpret and represent the lives of women who have experienced violence, marginalization, or systemic inequity. Her long-term goal is to shape “museum spaces where women’s stories are preserved, honored, and represented with transformative care.”
2025 Undergraduate Scholar
Jade Price is a senior at the University of Arizona majoring in History and Religious Studies with a minor in Library and Information Science. Upon graduation, she plans to pursue a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science, focusing on digital archiving and fieldwork that helps local museums, libraries, and cultural institutions to improve their digital preservation strategies, ultimately increasing both accessibility and public engagement. In the future, she writes, “I hope to contribute to creating digital archives that genuinely reflect the communities they serve.”
2024 Graduate Student Scholar
Mireya Borgen (left) expects to receive a Master's degree at the University of Arizona in May, and, after teaching in high school for a year, to continue to work toward a PhD in English exploring the role of women in Renaissance literature. She focuses on women's entanglement with economics, among other issues, in comparison with their economic agency today. She hopes to continue to teach at the university level.
2024 Undergraduate Student Scholar
Shaelyn Fett (right) will graduate in May with a Bachelor's degree in history from Northern Arizona University and will go on to pursue advanced work in museum studies. She has worked as a museum intern and enjoys "the opportunity to apply the objective knowledge and research skills that come with a history degree in a meaningful way" for the general public.
Johanne Harrigan is a PhD student at the University of Arizona preparing a dissertation on the subject of reproductive health in territorial Arizona. She is also developing an oral history project on Arizona's polio vaccination campaigns. A re-entry graduate student, she
was previously employed as a social worker while home-schooling her children.
"My interest in sharing women's history, through research, teaching, and public history is grounded in my desire to foster appreciation and increased understanding of Arizona's women, whether they be nineteenth-century midwives or twentieth-century mothers. History doesn't have to be the Great Man history that many of us learned in school. It can be about these Great Women, too."