Flo Burge
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How the Tenure Process Can Marginalize Women in History
This post was inspired by Heather Cox Richardson’s post yesterday about mothers in the academy. In addition to excellent points about motherhood, she offered a reminder of what women often bring to research as they sometimes look for new topics or at an issue in a different way. In looking back post-tenure, it worries me that the requirements needed for tenure at an R-1 institution may lead to the marginalization of women in history. At my university, like many other schools, tenure means being a national expert – publishing in national journals. This means that research is largely about national figures, usually men. In fact, in what was intended to…
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Flo Burge article
The Reno Gazette Journal has an article about Reno women’s page editor Flo Burge. Here is a link to it. I am guessing it is part of a women’s history month package. She won a Penney-Missouri Award for her work in the 1960s. Flo’s papers are at the University of Nevada-Reno and are rather extensive. We went through the papers a few years ago. I have tried to track down her daughters but have had no luck. I published an article about Flo in the Nevada Historical Quarterly in 2006.
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Flo Burge article
The Reno Gazette Journal has an article about Reno women’s page editor Flo Burge. Here is a link to it. I am guessing it is part of a women’s history month package. She won a Penney-Missouri Award for her work in the 1960s. Flo’s papers are at the University of Nevada-Reno and are rather extensive. We went through the papers a few years ago. I have tried to track down her daughters but have had no luck. I published an article about Flo in the Nevada Historical Quarterly in 2006.
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Flo Burge
Florence “Flo” Burge was an award-winning women’s page editor in Reno, Nevada in the 1960s. She tackled progressive content, among more traditional content about weddings and cleaning tips. Unlike many of the women’s page editors, Burge was married and she raised twin daughters. For more about Flo Burge, read my article on her in the Winter 2006, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. Or, read my entry about Burge in the Nevada Women’s History Project. Burge’s papers are the University of Nevada Reno, Special Collections. I appreciate SIUE funding my travel to this archive.
