“Women’s history is women’s right – an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and vision.” – Gerda Lerner
In celebration of International Women’s Day and as part of Women’s History Month, EUNIC’s New York cluster showcased female personalities in a collaborative social media campaign themed #OurHeroines. The Vienna-born pioneer of women’s historiography in the U.S., Gerda Lerner (1920-2013), who, among other things, established the first master’s program in 1972 and the first doctoral program in women’s history in 1990, and was the first woman to be elected president of the Organization of American Historians in 1981, was presented by the New York Cultural Forum. A 1938 refugee from Vienna, she received several awards from Austria.
The campaign was also the occasion for a newly established social media presence for the New York EUNIC cluster, which until recently was chaired by Austria.
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