Kyle E. Ciani is Associate Professor of History at Illinois State University, and a Core Faculty Member in their Women and Gender Studies Program. Ciani’s research, teaching, and service interests revolve around the histories of women’s wage earning, social justice, and activism in the Americas. She has provided research and archival consultation to the National Woman’s Party at Belmont-Paul Woman’s Equality National Monument and participated in crafting the Congressional Commission Report on the potential for an American Museum of Women’s History. Ciani has been a NEH Summer Scholar, and received the Strand Diversity Award and several teaching awards from Illinois State University. She earned her PhD in the history of women and gender from Michigan State University, and MA and BA degrees from the University of San Diego.