Cate Fosl
Template:TOCnestleft Dr. Cate Fosl is Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Associated with the History Department.
She also is Director of the Uof L Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research. Catherine (“Cate”) Fosl, MSW, PhD, is founding director of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research at the University of Louisville, where she is also an associate professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and an associate in History. Her fields of expertise are oral history, the modern African American freedom movement, U.S. women’s history, and post-WWII social change movements in the U.S. South.
Fosl is the author of three books: Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South (2002; paperback 2006); Freedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky (co-authored with Tracy E. K’Meyer, 2009), and Women For All Seasons: The Story of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (1989). Subversive Southerner won the 2003 Oral History Association Book Award and was named an Outstanding Book of 2003 by the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights. In 2005, Fosl received the Catherine Prelinger Award of the Coordinating Council for Women in History, for excellence as a nontraditional female scholar.
In 2005-06 she held a sexuality research fellowship with the Social Science Research Council, and in the fall of 2013 she was a visiting research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. From 2014 through mid-2015 she is working on a special project for the University of Louisville provost on Engaged Scholarship.
A former social worker and journalist, Fosl has also been active in peace, justice, and feminist causes for more than 25 years and has considerable experience pairing academic research and social change advocacy. Fosl’s latest research projects include (a) a collaboratively researched and authored Fair Housing study funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and (b) collecting oral histories of South African women active in the fight against apartheid as the basis for new writing comparing women’s experiences in the racial justice movements in the United States and South Africa. In 2013 she premiered a new University of Louisville Study-Abroad course, taking 8 Women’s and Gender Studies students to Cape Town, South Africa, the digital archive of which is available online at wgst591.omeka.net. [1]
Carl Braden Memorial Center Board
As of 2014 the board of the Carl Braden Memorial Center included;[2]
- Bill Allison
- Katie Allison
- Walter Bedford
- Eboni Cochran
- Bob Cunningham
- Cate Fosl
- Jessica George
- J. Blaine Hudson
- Carol Kraemer
- David Lott
- Pam McMichael
- Shirley Moorman
- Howard Owens
- Shameka Parrish
- Jan Phillips
- Alice Wade
- Sheila Wade
- Carla Wallace