User:Cliotropic

Shane Landrum, Ph.D. Candidate in American History at Brandeis University; interested in histories of women/gender/sexuality, law, politics, and culture, focusing on the US for now.

My current scholarly project on the history of birth certificates and compulsory birth registration in the United States includes lots of work on the history of the United States Children's Bureau, so I've more-or-less adopted that entry as my pet project.

I decided that Wikipedia needed more women's history, so I started WikiProject Women's History. We're always looking for more editors, particularly if you're a professional historian interested in teaching with Wikipedia and/or bringing Wikipedia up to scholarly standards. Check out our talk page if you'd like to help.

My Wikipedia contributions

Website: http://cliotropic.org

Current Projects

 * Remote participant, Berkshire Conference for the History of Women 2014 Edit-a-thon, May 24, 2014
 * WikiProject Women's History for Educators, a subproject to support educators in assigning Wikipedia-related coursework

Articles I've worked on
(And by "worked on," I mean "contributed more than once or twice.") This is mostly a list to remind me of entries I'd like to improve when I get time.


 * Josephine Clara Goldmark
 * Brandeis Brief
 * United States Children's Bureau
 * The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy

Stubs/Starts to improve:
 * National Consumers League
 * Maternalist reform
 * Julia Lathrop
 * Sheppard-Towner Act

Articles I've created

 * Martin v. Massachusetts
 * Ionia Rollin Whipper
 * William James Whipper, Ionia's father; one of the first African-American judges in Reconstruction-era South Carolina

Articles to be created

 * Eunice Rivers Laurie
 * draft at Draft:Eunice_Rivers_Laurie, under review as of 25 May 2014, but I'm still working on it

 Tools
 * WPWH Recent Changes
 * Cleanup templates
 * External watchlist for WikiProject US History