Katherine Jellison Interview by Stephen Gaydos, February 26, 2026
Transcript of Interview
Interviewee
Jellison, Katherine
Interviewer
Gaydos, Stephen
Interview Date
2-26-2026
Description
Dr. Katherin Jellison is a Professor Emerita in the History Department at Ohio University. She specialized in U.S. Women’s history and taught courses on that subject as well as Native American and Ohio history. She completed her Ph.D. in history at the University of Iowa, where she studied under Linda K. Kerber. Her first book, Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913-1963, examines the advent of agricultural technology and the response that midwestern women had to it. Her second book, It’s Our Day: America’s Love Affair with the White Wedding, 1945-2005, includes some writing about White House weddings. This led to her becoming a highly sought-after source on the topics of first ladies and women in politics. For 2017, she won the Keystroke Catalyst Award for having the most media placements among Ohio University faculty. She has also won the Excellence in Feminist Pedagogy Award and the Jeannette G. Grasselli Brown Faculty Teaching Award, among others. She began working at Ohio University in 1993 and served as Chair of the History Department. She has also been very involved in the Athens community, including the Athens County League of Women Voters.
This interview was conducted as part of a class project for Recording Memory: Methods and Uses of Oral History, Spring 2026, Alexander G. Lovelace (Ph.D.) Instructor.
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Keywords
Ohio University, Athens Ohio, U.S. Women's History, Historiography, Academia
Disciplines
Oral History | United States History | Women's History
Publication Date
Spring 4-29-2026
Interview Location
Athens, Ohio
Digital Publisher
Ohio University Libraries
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
00:47:10
File Format
audio/mpeg
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Jellison, Katherine and Gaydos, Stephen K., "Katherine Jellison Interview by Stephen Gaydos, February 26, 2026" (2026). HIST 4798/5798: Recording Memory: Methods and Uses of Oral History. 25.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/hist4798/25