Catherine Fosl is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Louisville, where she is also Founding Director of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research. She received both her M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Emory University. She has authored two books: Women For All Seasons: The Story of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (University of Georgia Press, 1989) and Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South (2002; reissued 2006, University Press of Kentucky), the latter of which won the 2003 Oral History Association Book Award and was named an Outstanding Book of 2003 by the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights. She has also received numerous awards for her research, including a 2005 SSRC sexuality fellowship for her new research on grassroots LGBTQ rights movements. In 2005, she was awarded the Catherine Prelinger Award of the Coordinating Council for Women in History for her achievements as a nontraditional scholar.