Sally RoeschWagner

Awarded one of the first doctorates in the country for work in women鈥檚 studies (UC Santa Cruz) and a founder of one the first college-level women鈥檚 studies programs in the United States (CSU Sacramento), Dr. Wagner has taught women鈥檚 studies courses for 53 years.听 The Founder/Director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, she teaches in Syracuse University鈥檚 Honors Program.听

A major historian of the suffrage movement, Dr. Wagner is active on the national scene.听 She appeared on the CNN Special Report: Women Represented and CNN鈥檚 Quest鈥檚 World of Wonder.听 She has been quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, Smithsonian, Nation and Time Magazine, among others.听 Her recent articles appeared in the New York Daily News, Ms. Magazine, the National Women鈥檚 History Alliance newsletter and National Suffrage Centennial Commission blog. In March 2021, the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian featured the film, Without a Whisper which traces Dr. Wagner鈥檚 research demonstrating the Haudenosaunee influence on the suffrage movement through her friendship with Wakerakats:te, the Mohawk Bear Clan Mother. She appeared in and wrote the faculty guide for the Ken Burns鈥 documentary, 鈥淣ot for Ourselves Alone.鈥澨

A prolific author, Dr. Wagner鈥檚 anthology鈥,鈥痺ith a Forward by Gloria Steinem鈥(Penguin Classics, 2019), unfolds a new intersectional look at the 19th century woman鈥檚 rights movement.鈥