Kathleen McIntyre, Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Associate Director of the Honors Program, was recently awarded a $6,000 summer stipend by the National Endowment for the Humanities for her research on “Protestant Women and Political Activism in Mexico, 1900–1955”.  Her book project explores the interrelated themes of educational reform, sports culture, temperance, suffrage, and transnational women’s rights groups, as well as Protestant women’s relations with Catholic women.

She plans to travel to Mexico in order to investigate how Protestant women in Mexico conceptualized citizenship after the 1910 Mexican Revolution, using their shifting relationship with the state to drive women’s rights.

McIntyre was one of only two Rhode Island awardees chosen by the NEH.