June 29, 2021

The League of Women Voters of Connecticut Education Fund is pleased to announce the selection of two Fellows for the 2021 Connecticut Women’s Suffrage Research Fellowship.  The 2021 Fellows are Kathryn Angelica and Brittney Yancy. 

The purpose of this Fellowship is to expand on current historical information to gain a fuller understanding of all the women who fought for the right to vote in Connecticut. The fellowship will support research on women of color in the Connecticut women’s suffrage movement around the passage of the 19th amendment - the pivotal period between the 1890s and the early 1920s.

Kathryn Angelica

Kathryn Angelica is a PhD student in History at the University of Connecticut.  She has a M.A. from University of Chicago and a B.A. from Boston University.  Ms. Angelica’s research will take an intersectional approach to the research of Black women’s organization and activism in Connecticut. This work on Black suffragists in Connecticut will serve as an important step in reshaping the genealogies of suffrage history to include the influences of abolitionism, labor reform, and community activism.

Brittney Yancy

Brittney Yancy is an Assistant Professor of Humanities at Goodwin University.  She is completing her doctorate from the University of Connecticut in 20th century U.S. History. Her Fellowship will continue the research she did for The Work Must Be Done Digital Archives project that is on the Connecticut Historical Society website. This Fellowship will result in the public dissemination of new research and tell a more complete history about women of color suffragists, anti-suffragists, and activists.

The Fellows were selected by the 2021 Fellowship Selection Committee: Nana Amos, Program Manager, Dodd Research Center, UConn; Ramin Ganeshram, Executive Director, Westport Museum of History and Culture; Leslie Lindenauer, Professor, Department of History and Non-Western Cultures, WCSU; and Kelly Marino, Assistant Lecturer of History and Coordinator of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Sacred Heart University.

The League of Women Voters of Connecticut Education Fund is proud to be advancing the knowledge and understanding of the women in Connecticut who created the history of women’s suffrage in our state.  We look forward to sharing the research work of these exceptional Fellows with the public.

For more information about the Fellowship, please contact the League of Women Voters Education Fund at lwvct [at] lwvct.org.

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