Jocelyn Olcott

Jocelyn Olcott is a historian of twentieth-century feminism. Her first book, Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico, explores women's efforts to exploit the opening created by Mexico's 1910-17 revolution to make claims of rights and citizenship. Her second book narrates the complex, rowdy, and often misrepresented 1975 United Nations International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City -- a gathering often seen as a watershed moment in transnational women's activism. She received her AB a Princeton University and PhD at Yale University. She currently teaches History at Duke University.