DR. JESSICA BRANNON-WRANOSKY
Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities and History
Texas A&M University-Commerce
jessica [dot] wranosky [at symbol] tamuc [dot] edu
Curriculum Vita—Updated January 2024
EDUCATION:
University of North Texas
Received: Doctorate of Philosophy in History
RECENT FACULTY AND TEACHING POSITIONS:
9/1/2017-Currently Texas A&M University-Commerce—Department of History
Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities and History;
Graduate Faculty; Gender Studies Affiliated Faculty
9/1/2016-8/31/2017 Texas A&M University-Commerce—Department of History
Associate Professor of History;
Graduate Faculty; Gender Studies Affiliated Faculty
9/1/2010-8/31/2016 Texas A&M University-Commerce—Department of History
Assistant Professor;
Graduate Faculty; Gender Studies Affiliated Faculty
6/1/2008-5/31/2010 University of North Texas—Department of History
Lead Designer and Lead Instructor for the Department of History’s
100% Online Large Enrollment Survey Courses
PRINT PUBLICATIONS:
Monographs and Anthologies—
2017 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica, and Bruce A. Glasrud, eds. Impeached: The Removal of Texas Governor James E. Ferguson, A Centennial Examination. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2017.
Journal Articles and Anthology Chapters—
2019 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica, and Cecilia Gutierrez Venable. “To Lead and To Vote: Black Woman Suffragists and the NAACP in the South,” Black History Bulletin [A Journal for educators published by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History] Vol. 82, No. 2 (Summer/Fall 2019).
2017 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. “The Texas Governor’s Impeachment in History and Memory.” In Impeached: The Removal of Texas Governor James E. Ferguson, A Centennial Examination. Edited by Jessica Brannon-Wranosky and Bruce A. Glasrud. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2017.
2015 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. “History, Memory and Perspective: Christia V. Daniels Adair’s 1977 Interview with the Black Women Oral History Project,” Sound Historian [The Texas Oral History Association Journal] (2015), 51-61.
2015 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. “Mariana Thompson Folsom: Laying the Foundation for Women’s Rights Activism.” In Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives. Southern Women: Their Lives and Times. Edited by Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Rebecca Sharpless, and Stephanie Cole. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015.
2014 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. “Reformers, Populists, and Progressives: Texas Between Reconstruction and the Roaring Twenties, 1875-1920.” In Discovering Texas History. Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud, Light Townsend Cummins, and Cary D. Wintz. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.
2013 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. “Investing in Urban: The Connected Growth of the Woman’s Monday Club and the Entrepreneurial Elite of Corpus Christi, Texas.” In This Corner of Canaan: Essays on Texas in Honor of Randolph B. Campbell. Edited by Richard B. McCaslin, Donald E. Chipman, and Andrew J. Torget, 311-334. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2013.
2009 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. “Defining the United States-Mexico Border and Immigration from 1910-1920: Geographical, Cultural, Economic, and Political Communities,” Journal of South Texas 22 (Spring 2009), 67-84.
PUBLIC HISTORY AND DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS & PROJECTS:
2023-currently Associate Producer and Lead Scholarly Advisor. Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter. Documentary Film. Abby Ginzberg and Christy Carpenter, Directors/Producers; Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, Associate Producer. Forthcoming World Premiere at South By Southwest Entertainment Festival (SXSW), March 2024.
2022-currently Project Director. Texas Woman Suffrage and Voting Educational Resources Project for Secondary and Post-Secondary Teachers. A Humanities Texas Content Development and Distribution Project, 2024.
2022-2024 Producer. Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas—Jessie Washington Dent, A Documentary Film Short Produced by Ellen Temple, Nancy Schiesari and Jessica Brannon-Wranosky. Forthcoming 2024.
2022-2024 Producer. Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas—Jovita Idar, A Documentary Film Short Produced by Ellen Temple, Nancy Schiesari and Jessica Brannon-Wranosky. Forthcoming 2024.
2022-2024 Producer. Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas—Elisabet Ney, A Documentary Film Short Produced by Ellen Temple, Nancy Schiesari and Jessica Brannon-Wranosky. Forthcoming 2024.
2022-2024 Producer. Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas—Eliza E. Peterson, A Documentary Film Short Produced by Ellen Temple, Nancy Schiesari and Jessica Brannon-Wranosky. Forthcoming 2024.
2022-2024 Producer. Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas—Lulu B. White, A Documentary Film Short Produced by Ellen Temple, Nancy Schiesari and Jessica Brannon-Wranosky. Forthcoming 2024.
2016-currently Founding Project Director, Handbook of Texas Women Project. Austin: Texas State Historical Association Press, https://texaswomen.tshaonline.org.
2021 Exhibit Content Author and Advisor. Citizens at Last: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas [traveling exhibit owned and sponsored by Humanities Texas (state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities)]. Currently in circulation since 2021. https://www.humanitiestexas.org/exhibitions/list/by-title/citizens-last-woman-suffrage-movement-texas.
2020 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. “Woman Hollering Creek and Other Histories of Texas Women and the Land [Digital Article and Visual Display].” Texas General Land Office, Save Texas History. Available via https://medium.com/save-texas-history/woman-hollering-creek-and-other-histories-of-texas-women-and-the-land-69894ea7f9f2.
2021 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. Historical Advisor& On Screen Interviews. Citizens At Last: Texas Women and the Fight for Justice. Documentary Film. Ellen C. Temple, Producer. Nancy Schiesari, Director. PBS Released 2021. https://www.citizensatlastfilm.com/. Both length documentaries were largely based on suffrage work by Jessica Brannon-Wranosky—see credits of films at end.
2019 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica, ed. Texas Women and the Vote: A Look At Texas Women Who Worked for Voting Rights Before and After 1920—To Commemorate the Centennial of Texas Ratification of Nineteenth Amendment (e-book). Austin: Texas State Historical Association Press, 2019.E-book and webpage available via https://texaswomen.tshaonline.org/suffrage/.
2017 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica, ed. Women Across Texas History: Volume 2—Early Twentieth Century (e-book). Austin: Texas State Historical Association Press, 2017. Available via https://join.tshaonline.org/ebook-offers/texas-women/enthusiast/.
2016 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica, ed. Women Across Texas History: Volume 1—The Nineteenth Century and Before (e-book). Austin: Texas State Historical Association Press, 2016. Available via https://join.tshaonline.org/ebook-offers/texas-women/enthusiast/.
2014 Digital Media Author. Give Me Liberty: An American History. 4th Brief ed. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
2013 Digital Media Author. Give Me Liberty: An American History. 4th ed. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
2012 Script Writer, Narrator, and Producer. “The U. S. Votes-for-Women Movements” Video Documentary Film Short. For the “American Voter” Project. Sponsored by the American Bar Association-Young Lawyers Division.
2010 Freelance Digital Writer & Designer, “Map Quizzes”/ “Imap: Geoquizzes.” America: A Narrative History. 8th ed & 9th ed. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
2009-2011 Project Consultant and Freelance Digital Writer & Designer. Give Me Liberty: An American History. 3rd Full and Brief ed. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
2004 Digital Content Author and Digital Design Consultant, The Woman’s Monday Club Collection and La Retama Club Collection Online Archival Exhibits. Corpus Christi Central Public Library.
http://obc.cclibraries.com/laretama/laretamahome.htm
http://obc.cclibraries.com/MondayClub/index.htm
PRINT WORKS IN PROGRESS, COMMISSIONED, OR UNDER REVIEW:
Under Contract Bruce A. Glasrud, Merline Pitre, Cecilia Gutierrez Venable and Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, eds. Centuries of Voices: Portraits of Black Women in Texas History. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
Accepted Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. “Connecting the Dots: Researching Maude Sampson Williams NAACP Leader and Suffragist.” In Centuries of Voices: Portraits of Black Women in Texas History. Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud, Merline Pitre, Cecilia Gutierrez Venable and Jessica Brannon-Wranosky. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
Under Revision Southern Promise and Necessity: Texas, Regional Identity, and the National Woman Suffrage Movement, 1868-1920.
Book Project: Lupe’s Daughters: A Story of Gendered Heritage and Legacy.
In Progress Co-authored Journal Article: “Cross Roads of Identities: Gender, Race and Land in the Nineteenth Century South.”
SELECT CONFERENCES, ADDRESSES, AND INVITED TALKS:
April 2024 Panelist, Paper presented at the panel “Black Women in West Texas History,” for the 2024 West Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Lubbock, Texas.
February 2024 Keynote Co-Presenter, “Clothing and Material Culture in the Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas and the U.S. [A Discussion and Talk Presented to coincide with the museum’s temporary exhibition, Walk This Way: Footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes].” Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, Dallas, Texas.
October 2023 Event Organizer, “Golden Voices and the Silver Screen – A Night of Celebrating Texas Women.” Texas A&M University-Commerce.
September 2023 Constitution Day Speaker, “Stories from the Suffrage Trail:
Woman Suffrage and the Dangers of the Fight.” Texas A&M University-Commerce.
June 2023 Speaker, “Texans Who Shaped the 20th Century: Eliza Eubanks Peterson, Temperance Leader, AND Jovita Idar, Mexican Revolutionary and Educational Activist—Two Portraits of Suffragist Advocacy from Other Causes.” Humanities Texas Summer Teacher Institute, LBJ Presidential Library, University of Texas at Austin.
June 2023 Panelist, Paper presented, “A New Deal Endeavor: The Texas Centennial and the Cementing of a Texas History ‘Master Narrative’ in the Public Mind.” Texas New Deal Symposium, Texas Wesleyan University.
March 2023 Panelist, Paper presented at the panel “The Long Civil Rights Movement in El Paso,” for the 2023 Texas State Historical Association 127th Annual Meeting, El Paso, Texas.
January 2023 Featured Speaker, Out of the Stacks: Impeached—The Removal of James E. Ferguson. December 10, 2022, Filmed Presentation for online broadcast in January 2023 for Texas State Library and Archives, Austin, Texas. https://www.tsl.texas.gov/txbookchat/wranosky
June 2022 Speaker, “Woman Suffrage—Texas and the Larger Movement.” Texas in the Twentieth Century, Humanities Texas Professional Development Institute, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.
October 2021 Panelist, Filmed Panel Presentation for Citizens At Last documentary, Paramount Stateside and Theatres Education Outreach, Austin, Texas.
April 2021 Speaker, “Early 20th Century & the ‘Age of Oil’: An Age of Science, Medicine, Industry, and Urbanization. Humanities Texas Teaching Texas History Spring 2021 Webinar Series.
March 2021 Panelist, “Viewing Citizens At Last documentaryand Panel Discussion.” Women’s History Month, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas, held virtually online.
March 2021 Panelist, “Collin College’s Celebration of the 19th Amendment.” Collin College, Collin County, Texas, held virtually online.
March 2021 Panelist, “Celebrating 100 Years Of Women’s Political Participation.” Women’s History Month, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, held virtually online.
March 2021 Chair and Participant, “Q&A session for Citizens At Last: Texas Women and the Fight for Justice (documentary) A Roundtable Discussion.” Texas State Historical Association 125th Annual Meeting. To Be Held Virtually Online.
March 2021 Chair and Moderator, “The Role of the Handbook of Texas Women in Women’s Public Representation, A Roundtable Discussion.” Texas State Historical Association 125th Annual Meeting. To Be Held Virtually Online.
November 2020 Speaker, “Diversifying the Memory of the Texas Woman Suffrage Movement—A Centennial Re-examination.” Feminist First Friday Texas Tech University Women’s and Gender Studies, held virtually online.
November 2020 Guest Discussion Leader, “Rosalyn Terborg-Penn’s African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850–1920.” Texas A&M University-Commerce Gender Studies Reading Club, held virtually online.
September 2020 Speaker, “High Noon Talk: Sister Suffragist.” Bullock Texas History Museum, Austin, Texas, held virtually online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEDVaE8eBOs
September 2020 Constitution Day Speaker, “The Nineteenth Amendment is 100 Years Old: Looking at the Votes for Women Movement form the 21st Century.” Tarrant County College-Northeast, Hurst, Texas, held virtually online.
August 2020 Panelist, “Brawling Politics: Texans Fight for Control in the Era of the Klan,” for the Witte Museum 2020 Conference on Texas: On Resilience Past, Present, and Future, held virtually online.
August 2020 Roundtable Discussant, “To Vote: Voting Rights for All of Some.” City of Austin, Oakwood Cemetery Chapel Historical Programs, Austin, Texas, held virtually online.
August 2020 Speaker, PetCo National Women Employees Voter Education Event, held virtually online and broadcast nationwide.
April 2020 Interviewer and Moderator, “Political Intellectuals, Texas Women’s Voices in the Twentieth Century” with Merline Pitre, Cynthia Orozco, and Cecilia Gutierrez Venable. League of Women Voter of Texas State Convention, Austin, Texas.—CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 EVENT RESTRICTIONS.
April 2020 Keynote Breakfast Speaker, “A Look Back At 100 Years: History of Suffrage in Texas and the Nation.” American Association of University Women Texas State Convention, Pflugerville, Texas.—CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 EVENT RESTRICTIONS.
March 2020 Speaker, “The Nineteenth Amendment Turns 100—Race, Gender, and the Future of US Votes-For-Women History.” Sam Houston State University Women’s History Month, Huntsville, Texas.
February 2020 Keynote Speaker, “The Nineteenth Amendment Turns 100: Texas and Woman Suffrage in Historical Trends.” Women in Texas History Luncheon, Texas State Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.
February 2020 Chair and Organizer, “Votes for Women Turns 100: Marking the Woman Suffrage Centennial in Texas.” Texas State Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.
January 2020 Speaker. Humanities Texas Teacher Workshop, hosted by Humanities Texas in Harlingen, Texas.
October 2019 Keynote speaker, Texas League of Women Voters Annual Meeting and Centennial Year Kickoff Commemoration, San Antonio, Texas.
October 2019 Chair and Moderator, Plenary Session, “The Handbook of Texas Women’s History: Telling Texas Women’s Stories.” Fall 2019 East Texas State Historical Association, Nacogdoches, Texas.
June 2019 Keynote Panelist, Texas Marks the 100th Anniversary of Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin, Texas. https://www.thestoryoftexas.com/visit/exhibits/sister-suffragists
June 2019 Speaker, “The Suffrage Movement in Texas.” Humanities Texas Teacher Institute—Texas: From Republic to Mega-State, hosted by Humanities Texas at University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.
April 2019 Panelist, “Does the Suffrage Movement Deserve an Obituary?: Rethinking the Placement of Suffrage in Historical Narratives at the Centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment.” Paper presented as part of the OAH Woman Suffrage Centennial Commemoration panel at the 2019 Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
March 2019 Session Chair and Commentator, panel “From ‘Nursery Schools’ to ‘Escuelitas’: Gender, Ethnicity, and Educational Reform in the Progressive Era,” for the 2019 Texas State Historical Association 123rd Annual Meeting, Corpus Christi, Texas.
October 2018 Speaker, “Women Leaders in the Texas NAACP—Maude Evangeline Craig Sampson Williams.” 81st Annual Texas State NAACP Convention.
August 2018 Panelist, “Defining and Debating Rape in State Legislatures in the United States, 1870-1975.” Paper presented at the panel “Modern Legal Responses to Rape and Consent in Transnational Perspective,” for the 2018 International Federation for Research in Women’s History Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
April 2018 Chair and Participant, Roundtable “Handbook of Texas Women Project—A Conversation with members of the Executive Advisory Committee.” West Texas State Historical Association, San Angelo, Texas.
March 2018 Speaker, “Stories from the Suffrage Trail: The Realities of Women Gaining the Right to Vote.” Tarrant County College South Campus Women’s History Month, Fort Worth, Texas.
March 2018 Panelist, “‘Post-War “Hysterics’: The 1950s Texas Legislative Focus on Sexuality and Reproductive Health.” Paper presented at the panel “Reform and Repression in Mid-Century Texas: Human Rights, Gender, and Sexuality,” for the Texas State Historical Association 122nd Annual Meeting, San Marcos, Texas.
February 2018 Panelist, “Easy Hands-on Teaching with Open Source GIS—Google Earth in the Classroom.” Teaching History in the 21st Century Conference, sponsored by Midwestern State University, the Wichita Falls Museum of Art at MSU, and the American Historical Association, Wichita Falls, Texas.
October 2017 Panelist, Plenary Session “New Directions in Texas Historiography: Books That Haven’t Been Written Yet (But Need to Be).” Fall 2017 East Texas State Historical Association, Galveston, Texas.
October 2017 Panelist, Roundtable “Impeached; The Removal of Texas Governor James Ferguson—a Centennial Discussion.” Fall 2017 East Texas State Historical Association, Galveston Texas.
June 2017 Presenter, “The Economic Means of Removing Depravity from Legislative Minds OR How the Great Depression Reduced the Legislature’s Obsession with Sex.” 2017 Texas New Deal Symposium, Dallas, Texas.
February 2017 Presenter, “Regulating the Personal: A Texas Legislative Tradition.” Spring 2017 East Texas State Historical Association, Marshall, Texas.
February 2017 Keynote address, “Texas Women during the Twentieth Century.” Discovering Texas History Conference, Austin, Texas. Hosted by the Texas State Historical Association.
November 2016 Invited presentation, “Texas Women’s History from the Texas Revolution to the Late Nineteenth Century.” Energizing Texas History Conference, Dallas, Texas. Hosted by the Texas State Historical Association.
November 2016 Presenter, “Stories from Women Across Texas History: Volume 1—The Nineteenth Century and Before an Ebook of Journeys.” Beta Lambda Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
March 2016 Presenter, “Mariana Thompson Folsom—A Look at Suffrage in Nineteenth Century Texas.” University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas. Talk as part of Women’s History Month Series.
October 2015 Roundtable Discussant, “The Texas A&M University-Commerce Presidential Wives Project: Teaching, Learning, and Coordinating Women and Gender Through Digital History, a Panel Discussion.” Fall 2015 East Texas State Historical Association, Nacogdoches, Texas.
September 2015 Speaker, “Recruiting Members and Lobbying for Support: Texas Woman Suffrage in the Nation and the World.” Cy-Fair Lone Star College Library, Cypress, Texas. Talk in connection with a Humanities Texas traveling exhibit.
June 2015 Panel Commentator, “From Ballot Boxes to the Books: The Commemoration and Memorialization of First Wave Feminism.” Southern Association for Women Historians 2015 Tenth Southern Conference on Women’s History, Charleston, South Carolina.
March 2015 Presenter, “Discovering Texas History [A Discussion of Historiographical Trends and Research Directions].” 2015 Texas State Historical Association, Corpus Christi, Texas.
November 2014 Presenter, “Sex is About Power: The 1890s Texas Legislatures’ Conflicting Obsession with Control.” Paper part of the panel, “Sex and Southern Legislatures: Examining the Politics of Regulation During the Late-Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” 2014 Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
October 2014 Panel Discussant, “Post-Reconstruction-1920 Research Directions in Texas History.” Fall 2014 East Texas State Historical Association, Nacogdoches, Texas.
June 2014 Keynote Panelist, “The KKK in Texas: Historic Importance and Ongoing Legacies [An Examination of Racism and Violence in 1920s Texas].” Bullock Texas History Museum, Austin, Texas.
March 2013 Panel Chair, “United States District Judges in Texas During Reconstruction.” 2013 Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, Texas.
February 2013 Presenter, “Women’s Rights Work During Reconstruction Texas.” Paper part of the panel, “Women in Civil War and Reconstruction Texas” for the 2013 East Texas Historical Association Conference, Galveston, Texas.
October 2012 Speaker, “Lincoln in the Public Mind: History, Memory, and the Icon” as part of the travelling exhibit Lincoln: The Constitution and Civil War, Sulphur Springs Public Library, Sulphur Springs, Texas. Cosponsored by the American Library Association, the National Constitution Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
October 2012 Speaker, “Progressive Texas.” Region 7 Texas History Workshop for Texas History Educators, Kilgore, Texas. Cosponsored by the Region 7 Education Service Center & the Texas State Historical Association.
July 2012 Invited Guest Co-host. “A History of Woman Suffrage [July 21, 2012].” Saturday School [A Twitter Talk Show].
June 2012 Presenter, “Searching for the Right Woman to Lead: NAWSA’s Struggle to Transcend Class Conflict in Texas.” Paper presented as part of the panel “Rewriting the Rules: The Forging of Gender and Class Identity Among Southern Activist Communities” for the Southern Association for Women Historians 2012 Ninth Southern Conference on Women’s History, Fort Worth, Texas.
March 2012 Presenter, “Interstate Ambassadors of the South: Texas and the Woman Suffrage ‘Winning Plan,’ 1916-1918.” Paper part of the panel “The Texas Template for Change: Women’s and Girls’ Reform Movements in the Early Twentieth Century” for the 2012 Texas State Historical Association Conference, Houston, Texas.
February 2012 Presenter, “The Clubwoman and the Suffragist: Texas Women’s Activism during the Early Twentieth Century.” Paper part of the women’s breakfast panel for the 2012 East Texas Historical Association Conference, College Station, Texas.
February 2012 Panel Participant, “The History of Black History Month.” Black History Month Opening Ceremony, Texas A&M University-Commerce, Sam Rayburn Student Center, Commerce, Texas.
April 2011 Presenter and Panel Organizer, “Pressure Politics, Southern Style: Final Campaigns for the Nineteenth Amendment.” Paper presented at the panel, “Southern Women and the Selling of Unpopular Politics, 1919-1925” for Court House, State House, Her House: A Conference on Southern Women and Politics, hosted by the University of Southern Mississippi Gulfport, Mississippi.
October 2009 Presenter, “Class, Race and Southern Identity: The Battle that Split the Texas Equal Rights Association, 1893-1897.” Invited Presentation for the Dallas Area Social History Group, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.
October 2009 “Finding and Utilizing Women and Gender Digital Archives.” Invited guest speaker for Women and Gender in the New South Graduate Research Seminar, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.
October 2009 Presenter, “Christia V. Daniels Adair: Identity and Memory Edited Through Oral History.” Paper presented as part of the panel, “The Relationship Between Heroic Expectation and Historic Memory: Lives Spent Seeking Citizenship Rights—Christia V. Daniels Adair, Audley Moore, Adella Hunt Logan,” for the 2009 Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference (ASALH), Cincinnati, Ohio.
June 2009 Panel Organizer, Moderator, and Participant. “Making Your Graduate School Experience Successful (Aka: Surviving the Life of a Graduate Student), a Roundtable Discussion by Doctoral Candidates and Recent Ph.D.s,” for the Southern Association for Women Historians 2009 Eighth Southern Conference on Women’s History, Columbia, South Carolina.
May 2009 Speaker, “Grading Student Writing Assignments Online Using GradeMark®: Spring 2009 Semester Pilot.” Invited Address for the University of North Texas Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and Redesign (CLEAR), University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.
March 2009 Presenter, “Restricted History: What Women’s Clubs Didn’t Write Down and Ways to Find It.” Paper presented as part of the panel, “Are You A Member?: The Limits of Club/Organizational Records in Women’s History,” at the 2009 National Council for Black Studies Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
February 2009 Invited Group Discussion Leader, Texas Women/American Women: New Historical Scholarship and Fresh Approaches Symposium, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas. Cosponsored by the Center for Texas Studies, the Department of History, and the Institute for Women and Gender, Texas Christian University, and Humanities Texas (state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities).
March 2006 Presenter, “Drawing Votes: The Use of Race and Ethnic Based Rhetoric and Imagery by Texas Woman Suffragists, 1917-1919.” Paper presented at the panel on Texas woman suffrage for the 2006 Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.
March 2004 Presenter, “The Woman’s Monday Club: The Role of Progressive Federated Club Work in the Urbanization of Corpus Christi.” Presented at the Southwestern Social Sciences Association/ Southwestern Historical Association Conference, Corpus Christi, Texas.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
2023 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. Book Review: “Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement by Cathleen D. Cahill,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 126 no. 4: 593-594.
2019 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica, revision author. “WOMAN SUFFRAGE,” Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/woman-suffrage
2019 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. “WILLIAMS, MAUDE EVANGELINE CRAIG SAMPSON,” Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/williams-maude-evangeline-craig-sampson
2019 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. “HAYES, REBECCA HENRY,” Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/hayes-rebecca-henry
2019 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica, revision author. “TEXAS EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION,” Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/texas-equal-rights-association
2019 Co-authorship—Jessica Brannon-Wranosky and Samantha Leihsing. “WATSON, MARGARET L.,” Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/watson-margaret-l
2018 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. “O’CONNOR, MACONDA BROWN,” Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/oconnor-maconda-brown
2018 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. “WILSON, ISABEL BROWN,” Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/wilson-isabel-brown
2018 Co-authorship—O’Hara, Dylan and Jessica Brannon-Wranosky. “LEAGUE, EDITH HINKLE,” Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/league-edith-hinkle
2016 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. Book Review: “Where Texas Meets the Sea: Corpus Christi and Its History by Alan Lessoff,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 119 no. 4: 448-449.
2014 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. Book Review of No Votes for Women: The New York State Anti-Suffrage Movement by Susan Goodier in H-NET Book Reviews through H-SHGAPE@h-net.msu.edu (2014).
2013 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. Book Review: “Joint Review of Gone at 3:17: The Untold Story of the Worst School Disaster in American History by David M. Brown and Michael Wereschagin and My Boys and Girls Are in There: The 1937 New London School Explosion by Ron Rozelle.” Journal of Southern History, 79 no. 4.
2013 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. Book Review: “African Americans in South Texas History edited by Bruce A. Glasrud.” East Texas Historical Journal, 51 no. 1: 99-100.
2012 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. Book Review: “Where the West Begins: Debating Texas Identity by Glen Sample Ely.” Journal of Southern History, 78 no. 3: 723-724.
2011 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. Book Review: “And Are We Yet Alive”: A History of the Northwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church by David J. Murrah in the West Texas Historical Association Yearbook (2011).
2008 Brannon-Wranosky, Jessica. Book Review: “A Spark or a Fire? The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920’s by Lorraine Gates Schuyler” in H-NET Book Reviewsthrough SAWH@h-net.msu.edu(2008).
2007 Author. “How to be a Successful Teaching Assistant.” Article in the “Mentoring Toolkit of the Southern Association for Women Historians.” http://thesawh.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Teaching_Assistants.pdf
2006 Author. “Teaching History with E-Learning Components.” Article in the “Mentoring Toolkit of the Southern Association for Women Historians.” http://thesawh.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Teaching_History_With_E-Learning.pdf
SELECT MEDIA APPEARANCES, INTERVIEWS, & NEWS COVERAGE:
2024 Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter [On screen interview appearances in film, Associate Producer and Lead Scholarly Advisor]. Documentary Film. Abby Ginzberg and Christy Carpenter, Directors/Producers; Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, Associate Producer. Forthcoming World Premiere at South By Southwest Entertainment Festival (SXSW), March 2024.
2023 San Antonio Express, “Park will honor mixed-race Texas patriot whose cloudy history is being researched, rewritten.” By Scott Huddleston. June 18, 2023. https://www.expressnews.com/news/texas/article/hendrick-arnold-park-18151617.php
2023 KETR News Interview by Mark Haslett, “Concert, documentary to celebrate history of Texas women’s suffrage.” October 17, 2023.
2021 Citizens At Last: Texas Women and the Fight for Justice [On screen interview appearances in film]. Documentary Film. Ellen C. Temple & Nancy Schiesari, Producers. Nancy Schiesari, Director. PBS Released 2021. https://www.citizensatlastfilm.com/. Documentary was based on suffrage work by Jessica Brannon-Wranosky and Judith N. McArthur—see credits of film at end.
2020 KETR News Interview by Mark Haslett, “A&M-Commerce Renames Library, Lake.” August 22, 2020.
2020 Fort Bend Star, “Reporter’s Notebook: (Un)covering the History of Women’s Suffrage.” October 27, 2020.
2020 Houstonian Magazine, “In the Face of Segregation, Black Suffragists Fought for the Vote in Houston.” October 26, 2020. https://www.houstoniamag.com/news-and-city-life/2020/08/black-suffragists-in-houston
2020 Texas Observer, “How Texas Women Delivered the Nineteenth Amendment: An Upcoming Documentary and Book Bark the Suffrage Centennial, Focused on Texas Contributions.” August 27, 2020.
2019 Austin Chronicle, “Bullock Museum Commemorates 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage in Texas ‘Sister Suffragist’ Tackles the Timeline of Women’s Rights.” June 14, 2019. https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/arts/2019-06-14/bullock-museum-commemorates-100-years-of-womens-suffrage-in-texas/
2019, 2020 Texas Standard [national syndicated radio], “100 Years: Voices Of Women Voters: The Historian.” http://www.texasstandard.org/100years/.
2017 Texas Matters [statewide syndicated radio],, “Texas Matters: Impeach! How Texas Booted A Governor.” https://www.tpr.org/post/texas-matters-impeach-how-texas-booted-governor. Portions reaired, “Texas Matters: When Texas Impeached.” https://www.tpr.org/post/texas-matters-when-texas-impeached-real-chicken-ranch-remembered.
2017 Texas Standard [national syndicated radio], “It’s Been 92 Years Since Texas Had An All-Woman Supreme Court.” https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/its-been-92-years-since-texas-had-an-all-woman-supreme-court/
2017 The Bookmark [PBS], “Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, Co-editor of “Impeached: The Removal of Texas Governor James E. Ferguson” discusses her book with Christine Brown.” https://www.pbs.org/video/jessica-brannon-wranosky-impeached-the-remo-gzislf/.
2016 Good Day Austin Interview. Fox 7 Austin KBTC Television.
2016 KETR Radio Interview by Mark Haslett with Historians Jessica Brannon-
Wranosky, Nancy Baker, and Allison Faber, “Texas Women in Politics’ Shines Light On History Of Activism.”
RECENT SELECT AWARDS AND HONORS:
2018 Honorable Mention, Best Book on East Texas History, Jessica Brannon-Wranosky and Bruce A. Glasrud, eds. Impeached: The Removal of Texas Governor James E. Ferguson, A Centennial Examination. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2017. East Texas Historical Association.
2016 Texas Oral History Association’s Ken Hendrickson Award for Best Article in Sound Historian during the Previous Year for Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, “History, Memory and Perspective: Christia V. Daniels Adair’s 1977 Interview with the Black Women Oral History Project.” Awarded by the Texas Oral History Association.
2016 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book in Texas Women’s History during the Previous Year for Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, edited by Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Rebecca Sharpless, and Stephanie Cole. Contributing author, Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, “Mariana Thompson Folsom: Laying the Foundation for Women’s Rights Activism.” Awarded by the Texas State Historical Association.
2015 Choice Magazine (American Library Association) Outstanding Past Year’s Academic Books List Award for Discovering Texas History, edited by Bruce A. Glasrud, Light Townsend Cummins, and Cary D. Wintz. Contributing Author, Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, “Reformers, Populists, and Progressives: Texas Between Reconstruction and the Roaring Twenties, 1875-1920.”
2015 John H. Jenkins Fellowship for the Best-Proposed Research in Texas History. Awarded by the Texas State Historical Association.
SELECT RECENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Profession—
2023-2024 Chair, Women’s History Committee, East Texas State Historical Association.
2023-2024 Chair, Randolph Campbell Award Committee, Texas State Historical Association.
2023-2024 Chair, Handbook of Texas Committee, Texas State Historical Association.
2023-2024 Member, Publications Committee, Texas State Historical Association.
2023 Member, Governance Committee, Texas State Historical Association.
2022-2023 Member, Liz Carpenter Award Committee—Best Book in Texas Women’s History, Texas State Historical Association.
2020-2022 Chair, Liz Carpenter Award Committee—Best Book in Texas Women’s History, Texas State Historical Association.
2020-2023 Member, Randolph Campbell Award Committee, Texas State Historical Association.
2015-2023 Member, Handbook of Texas Committee, Texas State Historical Association.
2021-2022 Chair, Locke Awards Committee, East Texas State Historical Association.
2015-2020 Member and Treasurer, Southern Association for Women Historians Executive Council.
2013-2021 Member, Texas State Historical Association Board of Directors.
2019- 2020 Member, Executive Council, Coordinating Council for Women in History.
2019- 2020 Chair, Carol Gold Best Article Award Committee, Coordinating Council for Women in History.
2018-2019 Member, Carol Gold Best Article Award Committee, Coordinating Council for Women in History.
2016-2018 Member, Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Historical Profession, Southern Historical Association.
2015-2017 Chair, 2017 Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association.
2017-2020 Chair, Bylaws Committee, Texas State Historical Association.
2017-2021 Member, Locke Awards Committee, East Texas State Historical Association.
2014-2017 Member, Bylaws Committee, Texas State Historical Association.
2013-2019 Member, Education Committee, Texas State Historical Association.
2013-2017 Member, Resolutions Committee, Texas State Historical Association.
2014 Co-Representative for Texas, 2014 Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association.
2013 Member, A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize Committee for the Best Article in Southern Women’s History, Southern Association for Women Historians.
2012-2014 Member, 2014 Annual Meeting Program Committee, Texas State Historical Association.
2012 Member, 2012 Annual Spring Meeting Program Committee, East Texas Historical Association.
2011-2015 Member, Membership Committee, Southern Association for Women Historians.
2008-2010 Member, Ad hoc Committee on Technology, Southern Association for Women Historians.
2005-2010 Member, Committee on Mentoring, Southern Association for Women Historians.
University and College—
2014-2017 Member & CHSSA Representative, Graduate Council, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2016-2017 Member, Century As Lions Campaign Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2015 Member, Claire L. Chennault Historical Marker Dedication Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2015 Co-Chair with Jalinna Jones, Claire L. Chennault Historical Marker Dedication Lunch Sub-Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2014-2015 Member & CHSSA Representative, Graduate Council Scholarship Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2012 Member, University Archives and Special Collections Archivist Search Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
Department—
2017-currently Member, Department of History, Scholarship Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2021-currently Member, Department of History, Public History Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2022-currently Member, Department of History, Ad-Hoc Outreach Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2023-currently Member, Department of History, Graduate Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2019-2021 Chair, Department of History, Public History T&P Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2019-2020 Chair, Department of History, Workload Policy Revision Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2017-2021 Chair, Department of History, Public History Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2018-2019 Chair, Department of History, History of the Islamic World Search Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2017-2019 Chair, Department of History, Public History Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2016-2017 Chair, Department of History, Public Historian-Twentieth Century U. S. Search Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2016 Member, Department of History, Professional Track U. S. Historian Search Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2013-2015 Co-Chair, Department of History Curriculum Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2010-2015 Website Editor, Department of History, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2014-2015 Chair, Department of History, Oral Historian-Twentieth Century U. S. Historian Search Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2012-2014 Member, Department of History Scholarship Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2012-2014 Member, Department of History Scholarship Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2013-2014 Member, Department of History African Americanist and Public Historian Search Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2012-2013 Member, Department of History Latin Americanist Search Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2011-2013 Coordinator, Department of History Alumni Relations, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2011-2013 Chair, Department of History Public Relations Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2011-2013 Chair, Department of History James Madison Scholarship Committee, Texas A&M University-Commerce.
2011-2012 Interim and Co-Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta, Texas A&M University-Commerce; Interim Advisor Fall 2011; Co-Advisor Spring 2012.
2012 Co-host and Co-Program Organizer Northeast and North Texas Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference, Texas A&M University-Commerce, April 14, 2012.
2010-2012 Compliance Advisor, Department of History Institutional Review Board (IRB), Texas A&M University-Commerce.
Community—
Select Consulting and Advisory
2023-currently Shaking It Up: The Life and Times of Liz Carpenter, A Documentary Produced and Directed by Abby Ginzberg & Christy Carpenter, Associate Produce Jessica Brannon-Wranosky, and sponsored by Kovno Communications.
2022 Credited Historical Consultant for the musical group Curtis and Loretta, for song “Doctor Grace Danforth,” on album Lift the World https://curtisandloretta.com/track/3223367/doctor-grace-danforth
2019-2020 Citizens At Last: Texas Women and the Fight for Justice. Documentary Film. Ellen C. Temple, Producer. Nancy Schiesari, Director. PBS Released 2021. https://www.citizensatlastfilm.com/.
2018-2019 Texas NAACP Oral History Project. NAACP of Texas. https://dmc.tamuc.edu/digital/collection/p15778coll23/search/searchterm/National%20Association%20for%20the%20Advancement%20of%20Colored%20People.!2019-10-05/field/subjec!date/mode/exact!exact/conn/and!and/order/title/ad/asc
2019-2020 Content Advisor. Sister Suffragists Exhibit. June 18, 2019-December 31, 2020. Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin, Texas. https://www.thestoryoftexas.com/visit/exhibits/sister-suffragists
2020 Historical Consultant for Texas Committee, National Votes for Women Trail Project, National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites. https://ncwhs.org/votes-for-women-trail/
2018 Script Consultant, Texas Originals Radio Program—a partnership with Humanities Texas and Houston Public Media. http://www.humanitiestexas.org/programs/tx-originals
2011 Consultant, Texas Senate Photography Department, Texas Woman Suffrage permanent exhibit housed in the Civil Rights Room, Third Floor, State of Texas Capitol Building, Austin, Texas.
2011-2012 Consultant, “Remixing Rural Texas: Local Texts, Global Context” Project. Primary Investigator-Shannon Carter, Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M University-Commerce. Funded by the National Endowment of the Humanities.
ANONYMOUS REVIEWER AND MANUSCRIPT REFEREE
Oxford University Press, University of Oklahoma Press, University of North Texas Press, The Journal of Southern History, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Cengage Learning
HONOR SOCIETY & PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Coordinating Council for Women in History, Association of Black Women Historians, National Women’s Studies Association, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, National Council for Black Studies, National Council on Public History, Southern Association for Women Historians, Southern Historical Association, Western Historical Association, Texas State Historical Association, East Texas Historical Association, West Texas Historical Association, Dallas Area Society of Historians Group, Phi Alpha Theta, and Phi Kappa Phi.
Jessica Brannon-Wranosky • Historian 