Listen to Vernon Oakes’s interview with Anne Gessler and Ron Hantz, executive director and founder of the Network for Developing Conscious Communities here.
Category About
News
Past Public History Projects
UHCL Hawk Stories oral history project, 2018
Texas Folklife oral history project on Austin food trucks, 2013
Foodways Texas oral history project on Austin food cooperatives, 2012
Stories from Summer Vacation, Department of American Studies blog, 2012
Williamsburg Documentary Project on WCWM-FM, College of William and Mary’s radio station, 2006
CV
Academic Appointments
Clinical Assistant Professor, the University of Houston-Clear Lake, First-Year Seminar Program and Humanities Program, August 2015-present
Education
Ph.D., American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 2015
Dissertation: “Civilization’s Supreme Test”: Cooperative Organizing in New Orleans, 1890s-2014
Doctoral Portfolio, Women’s and Gender Studies
M.A., American Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009
Thesis: Jolly Ocean Rovers: Gender and Radio Technology in the 1910s
B.A., American Studies, Minor in Art and Art History, The College of William and Mary, 2007
Current Research and Writing
Refereed Journal Articles
2017 “Dust Mop or Mic? Women’s Utopian Border-Crossings in Cold War Ham Radio,” Radio Journal 15, no. 2 (October 2017).
2017 “Warriors for Lower Prices: The New Orleans Housewives’ League and the Consumer Cooperative Movement, 1913-1921,” Journal of Southern History 83, no. 3 (August 2017).
2015 “‘A Formula for Freedom’: The Utopian Promise of the 1940s New Orleans Cooperative Movement,” Utopian Studies 26, no. 1 (May 2015).
2015 “‘Purifying the Upper Atmosphere’: Women’s Work in Early Radio, 1905-1913,” American Studies in Scandinavia 46, no. 1 (2014).
Book Reviews
2018 “Review: Leonard Rogoff’s Gertrude Weil: Jewish Progressive in the New South,” Journal of Southern History 84, no. 1 (February 2018).
2012 “Review: Sharon Zukin’s Naked City,” E3W Review of Books 2 (Spring 2012).
Non-Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
2015 “The Liberatory Potential of Worker Co-ops: A Look at Ecology Action and Treasure City Thrift,” in Emergency Hearts/Molotov Dreams: A scott crow Reader: Selected Interviews and Conversations, 2010-2015 (Cleveland: GTK Press, 2015).
Teaching Experience
University of Houston-Clear Lake
HIST 4313, History of Feminism
HIST 1302, U.S. History II
HUMN 3375, Ideas in Transition: Utopia
PSYC 1100, First-Year Seminar, transfer student section
PSYC 1100, First-Year Seminar
The University of Texas at Austin
AMS 310, American Utopia
RHE 309S, Critical Reading and Persuasive Writing
RHE 309K, Rhetoric of Gentrification
RHE 306, Rhetoric and Writing
Public Talks
Recent and Current Conferences
Association for Literary Urban Studies Conference, Limerick, Republic of Ireland, December 2019
Society for Utopian Studies Annual Conference, Berkeley, CA, November 2018
Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Santa Clara, CA, August 2018
Texas A&M University at Galveston Conference on Inclusion & Diversity in Higher Education, Galveston, TX, April 2017
American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, January 2017
American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 2016
Innovative Teaching & Learning Symposium, Houston, TX, April 2016
Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2014
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 2013
I’m happy to send my full Academic CV upon request.
Gathering Tree Growers Collective, Part 2
Listen to Gathering Tree collective member Jocine Velasco discuss her understanding of sustainable agriculture and urban farming in New Orleans here.
Gathering Tree Growers Collective
Learn more about master gardener Macon Fry here.
R.U.B.A.R.B.
You can listen to Matt Robinson discuss New Orleans community bike shop R.U.B.A.R.B. here.
The Cooperative Oral History Project
The Cooperative Oral History Project is dedicated to documenting the memories and experiences of cooperative and collective members in two very different cities: Austin and New Orleans. The project has a strong social and environmental justice component: in their interviews, cooperative and collective members explore how their organizations create alternative solutions to combat economic, political, environmental, and social inequality dividing their cities as well as the nation at large.
In the following interviews, cooperative and collective members tell stories about what cooperative organizing means to them: why they joined the cooperative, how and why their cooperative formed, and what issues their cooperative identifies as most pressing within their community. You can listen to selections from our conversations or read the full transcript of our interviews.
If you are a cooperative or collective member in Austin or New Orleans and want to participate in the Cooperative Oral History Project, please contact me at annegessler@gmail.com.