Patricia Schechter

Patricia Schechter is professor of history at Portland State University in Oregon where she has taught since 1995. She received her BA in American Studies magna cum laude from Mount Holyoke College and then her PhD in History from Princeton University. Her first book, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform (UNC Press, 2001) won the Sierra Book Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians. Her subsequent publications and public history projects have been recognized for their excellence by the Oral History Association, Library Choice, and the American Philosophical Society, among others. She is currently editor of the online journal and database Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000. Her new book El Terrible: Life and Labor in Pueblonuevo, 1887-1939, is a transnational social and labor history of a mining town in Andalusia, Spain, published by Routledge in the 2024. She also co-hosts the podcast “Family Secrets of the Spanish Civil War” with fellow historian Daniel J. Czitrom.