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Elizabeth De Wolfe featured in American Historical Association’s publication for class on addressing gender bias in ‘Wikipedia’ articles

Elizabeth De Wolfe
Elizabeth De Wolfe

Elizabeth De Wolfe, Ph.D., professor of history, is featured in the September issue of Perspectives, the news magazine of the American Historical Association.

De Wolfe discussed a recent Women's and Gender Studies class project in which undergraduate students researched and wrote Wikipedia articles in an attempt to raise the public visibility of women's history and redress the noted bias of Wikipedia toward conventional historical subjects.

The project by student Briana Goud (Biochemistry major/Applied Mathematics minor, ’18) on Josephine Diebitsch Peary, researched at the Maine Women's Writers Collection, provided the article's lead example.  

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