Patricia A. Schechter
Professor of History
141 Cramer Hall
Portland State University
Portland OR 97207-0751
503-725-3007
schechp@pdx.edu
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Education
1993 Ph.D., Princeton University (History)
1986 B.A. magna cum laude, Mount Holyoke College (American Studies)
Major Publications
2012 Exploring the Decolonial Imaginary: Four Transnational Lives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
2011 Remembering the Power of Words: The Life of an Oregon Activist, Legislator and Community Leader, co-author with Avel Louise Gordly. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press.
2001 Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Work-in-Progress
"The Colonial is the (Trans)National: Women and Oklahoma Statehood, 1907" (article)
Recent Awards & Prizes
2011 Choice "Oustanding University Press Title for Undergraduates"
2010 Elizabeth Mason Award, Oral History Association (honorable mention)
2008 President's Award, Cambodian American Community of Oregon
2001 Sierra Book Prize, Western Association of Women Historians
Select Oral & Public History Projects
2010 Civil Rights in Oregon: The Black United Front
2009 The Cambodian American Community of Oregon
2004 Oregon Nurses Association Centennial Celebration
2001 YWCA of Greater Portland Centennial Celebration
updated September 2012
