Gerda Lerner
Gerda Lerner was a pioneering historian who played a crucial role in establishing women's history as an academic field.
Born in Austria, she became a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a visiting scholar at Duke University.
Lerner taught the first women's history course in 1963 at the New School for Social Research and went on to develop women's history curricula at several institutions.
She founded the first graduate program in Women's History at Sarah Lawrence College and served as president of the Organization of American Historians.
Lerner's work was instrumental in bringing women's perspectives and experiences into mainstream historical study.
