Susan Goodier

Susan Goodier, Ph.D., influenced by her passion for nineteenth and early twentieth century history, is a scholar who focuses on U.S. women's activism from the period of the Civil War through the First World War. She did her graduate work at SUNY at Albany, earning a master's degree in Gender History and a doctorate in Public Policy History, with subfields in International Gender and Culture and Black Women's History. A year later she completed a second master's degree in Women's Studies. She teaches New York State, U.S., and Women's History courses at SUNY Oneonta, and serves as book review editor for the New York History journal. She is a Public Scholar with the New York Council for the Humanities and is available to give talks on topics related to women's rights activism.

Susan is the coordinator for the Upstate New York Women's History Organization (UNYWHO), and holds membership in the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, the Coordinating Council of Women Historians, and serves as a board member of the Clinton Historical Society. She is currently co-writing a book on the New York State Woman Suffrage Movement, with publication expected in 2017, just in time to celebrate the centennial of women voting in New York State.