Lisa Tetrault
Dr. Lisa Tetrault is an associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University and a leading scholar of women’s suffrage. She is the author of the path-breaking, prize-winning book, The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898. A frequent commentator on the recently concluded suffrage centennial, Tetrault served as an historical consultant for Nineteenth Amendment projects launched by the National Constitution, the Schlesinger Library, Ancestry.com, as well as PBS’s “The Vote” (American Experience). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, Time Magazine, New York Magazine, The New Republic, and elsewhere. As a public historian, Tetrault has appeared on numerous podcasts, National Public Radio (make that donation now!), and in several documentaries, including Amend, streaming on Netflix. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Library of Congress. Her current research explores the evolution of the Nineteenth Amendment’s language, as well as the United States’ refusal to create positive voting rights, from the founding to the present.