{"id":24134,"date":"2016-03-20T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T21:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=24134"},"modified":"2016-04-04T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T18:10:13","slug":"csws-faculty-affiliate-gina-herrmanns-research-gives-voice-women-activists-jailed-wartime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/csws-faculty-affiliate-gina-herrmanns-research-gives-voice-women-activists-jailed-wartime\/","title":{"rendered":"CSWS faculty affiliate Gina Herrmann\u2019s research gives voice to women activists jailed in wartime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u201ds Note: CSWS faculty affiliate Gina Herrmann<\/a><\/strong>, associate professor, romance languages, received a 2015-16 CSWS Faculty Research Grant for\u00a0 her research \u201cSpanish Women in the French Resistance and Ravensbruck\u201d and a 2009-10 CSWS Faculty Research Grant for \u201cVoices of the Vanquished: Spanish Republican Women in War and Prison.\u201d Her research recently earned Herrmann a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read more about this in Around the O<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Gina Herrmann<\/p><\/div>\n

March 31, 2016\u2014<\/strong>Years ago, when Gina Herrmann began her decades-long oral history project examining the accounts of Spanish Civil War-era women activists, she had a somewhat romanticized notion of what her research would reveal.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I started the project, I was interested in this ideal of these women. I saw them picking up rifles and going to the front lines … it was glamorous,\u201d said Herrmann, an associate professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages. \u201cI was very quickly disabused of this notion. The oral history I was collecting were stories of imprisonment, torture, the loss of comrades, destroyed families.\u201d<\/p>\n

Within those raw narratives, Herrmann reveals how working-class communist women coped with and managed traumatic and life-threatening experiences brought about by political resistance and forced exile. The project, which continues today, recently earned Herrmann a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.<\/p>\n

The award is supporting her work on her forthcoming book, \u201cVoices of the Vanquished: Spanish Republican Women in War and Prison.\u201d The award will allow her to spend the 2017-18 academic year writing about the testimonies she collected with Republican women survivors of the Spanish civil war, the Francoist penitentiary system, the French Resistance and deportation to Nazi concentration camps.<\/p>\n

(for the full story by Lewis Taylor, go to: Research gives voice to women activists jailed in wartime | Around the O<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u201ds Note: CSWS faculty affiliate Gina Herrmann, associate professor, romance languages, received a 2015-16 CSWS Faculty Research Grant for\u00a0 her research \u201cSpanish Women in the French Resistance and Ravensbruck\u201d and a 2009-10 CSWS Faculty Research Grant for \u201cVoices of the…<\/p>\n

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