AMEWS has just launched a project to document its history from its early days to the present. To that end, we will be collecting and posting online statements from old and new members. Oral history is a way of telling history that is diverse and multilayered. The statements will be eclectic and varied and will we hope contribute to the wider history project. We begin with the memories of Louise Cainkar, associate professor of Social and Cultural Studies, Marquette University and longtime treasurer of AMEWS, interviewed by Ellen McLarney in San Antonio, TX, on November 16, 2018. The AMEWS Oral History committee consists of Nancy Gallagher and Sondra Hale, co-chairs, Ellen McLarney, and Sherene Hafez.
Leila Ahmed, part of the founding of AMEWS
Interviewed by Soha Bayoumi
Cambridge, MA., October 15, 2020
Valentine M. Moghadam, former AMEWS President (2003-2004)
Interviewed by Soha Bayoumi
Boston, MA, October 16, 2020
Jennifer Olmsted, AMEWS President-Elect
Interviewed by Amaney Jamal
New Orleans, LA, November 17, 2019
Lara Deeb, member of AMEWS
Interviewed by Sondra Hale
Culver City, CA, December 16, 2019
Amaney Jamal, AMEWS President 2013-2017
Interviewed by Nancy Gallagher
New Orleans, LA, November 16, 2019
Helen Rizzo, AMEWS Member-at-Large 2019-2021
Interviewed by Nancy Gallagher
New Orleans, LA, November 14, 2019
Nadje Al-Ali, AMEWS President 2009-2011
Interviewed by Sondra Hale
Culver City, CA, May 7, 2019
Azza Basarudin, AMEWS Secretary 2005-2013
Interviewed by: Sondra Hale
Los Angeles, CA, March 1, 2019
miriam cooke, AMEWS President 2001-2003
Interviewed by: Ellen McLarney
Durham, NC, December 17, 2018
Louise Cainkar, AMEWS Treasurer
Interviewed by: Ellen McLarney
San Antonio, TX, November 16, 2018
Susan Schaefer Davis, AMEWS President 1991-1993
Interviewed by: Nancy Gallagher
Philadelphia, PA, December 15, 2018