Collective Biographies of Women

Alison Booth’s Collective Biographies of Women began as a simple electronic text which, in collaboration with the Scholars’ Lab, blossomed into a rich instrument for the study of prosopography. Professor Booth was later selected as an IATH and ACLS Fellow on the merit of this work, and has gone on to work with both Scholars' Lab and IATH staff on the project, as well as a cohort of student research assistants.

Below are our research blog posts related to the CBW project:

• New Nationalism, Legendary Women: Panchanan Bhattacharyya’s Ideals of Indian Womanhood (1921) after the Great War
• A Limited Comparison of Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Tubman
• Segregated Biographical Collections and Documentary Social Networks: *Portraits of American Women* and *Women of Distinction*
• Gamaliel Bradford and Psychography
• A World War I Gallery of Women, or, a 1919 Project
• BESSing With Collective Biographies of Women: Identifying Our Own Misconceptions of the “Fallen Woman”
• Death Politics in Collections of Indian Women's Lives
• Sister of Notable Woman: Henrietta Bird
• BESS: A Very Short Primer
• Walt Whitman's Jack Engle and Lola Montez: New from Collective Biographies of Women

Collaborators:

• Alison Booth, Project Owner
• Wayne Graham, Head of Research and Development
• Joe Gilbert, User Experience Web Developer
• Jeremy Boggs, Design Architect
• IATH