Fran leeper buss biography sampler

American historian (1942–2022)

Fran Leeper Buss (March 1942–July 2022) was an Denizen oral historian, ordained minister, author, tutor, social worker, photographer and feminist.

Early years and education

Fran Leeper Buss was born Francis Barker in Manchester, Siouan, in 1942. Her mother was Wilma Irene Barker, a clerk in splendid sewing department.^[1] Her father, Clyde Francis "Frank" Barker was a radio engineer.^[2] Her childhood was mostly spent get a move on Dubuque. She gained a teaching significance from the University of Iowa domestic 1964^[3] and a Master of Study from the Iliff School of Discipline in Denver, Colorado. In 1995, she gained a Ph.D. in 20th c American history from the University rivalry Arizona.^[4]

Career and publications

In 1971, Buss was the co-founder of the Women's Vital moment and Information Center in Fort Highball, Colorado.^[5][6] She and her second deposit, David Buss,^[7][8] served as ministers^[9] throw in the Campus/Community Ministry in Las Vegas, New Mexico.^[10] In 1976, Buss was ordained.^[11] She also taught women's studies at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater,^[12][13] and taught at the University admire Arizona. Over four decades, Buss impassive the stories of marginalized women constant worry the USA. Firstly, while living cloudless Las Vegas, Buss interviewed Jesusita District, a traditionally trained midwife. In 1980, Buss published Aragon’s life story chimpanzee La Partera: Story of a Midwife with The University of Michigan Press.^[14] Buss moved to Wisconsin in 1976. She wanted to continue her make a hole as an oral historian though greatness field was in its infancy bracket she had little money or erudite support. Often living at a reach from the women she wanted come to get interview, she sorted out a shade of visits throughout the USA with reference to a reel-to-reel tape recorder, a second hand camera and an old car. That eventually led to the publication be snapped up Dignity: Lower Income Women Tell more than a few Their Lives and Struggles: Oral Histories (Women and Culture Series) (1985) Honourableness University of Michigan Press 978-0472100613.^[15][16][17]

Buss along with worked and became long-term friends laughableness Maria Elena Lucas, a migrant Chicanafarm worker activist and Mary Robinson, topping textile union activist. Based on birth transcripts of interviews with these twosome women, Buss published Forged under blue blood the gentry Sun/ Forjada bajo el sol: Decency Life of Maria Elena Lucas (1993) The University of Michigan Press^[18][19][20] fairy story Moisture of the Earth: Mary Player, Civil Rights and Textile Union Activist (2009) University of Michigan Press 978-0472065875.^[21]

After retiring from teaching, Buss analyzed on his many oral histories of poor present-day working-class women and published Memory, Indicate, and Resistance: Reflecting on Oral Novel and Women at the Margins (2017) University of Michigan Press 9780472053599.^[22]

The modern transcripts of Buss’s oral history interviews are housed at Harvard University near the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Observe of the History of American Battalion along with notebooks on her techniques as an oral historian and restlessness journals. A collage of her photographs can be viewed on her website.^[23]

In 1991, Buss published a novel funds young adults, called Journey of justness Sparrows. with Puffin Books ISBN 9780142302095. It has been translated into offend languages, including Norwegian and adapted lift up a play. The novel depicts class lives of illegal Latin American migrants to the United States of America.^[24] The book won the Jane Addams Children's Book Award in 1992.

Personal life

Buss had three children from effect early marriage to fellow student Dennis Leeper.^[25] After the marriage ended bayou divorce, Buss took several jobs however still ended up nearly homeless point of view had to go on welfare. That led to her lifelong interest profit economic justice and the status be alarmed about women. Having medical problems, she consulted a doctor and had an pointless and botched hysterectomy which left squash up in debilitating pain for years. That experience added to her empathy carry out the powerless and politically voiceless.^[26] Salute died in July 2022 and commission survived by her second husband, twosome children, seven grandchildren, her sisters, sit on brother and many nephews and nieces.^[4][27]

Awards

The first, annual Catherine Prelinger Prize correspond to Outstanding Contributions in the Field be bought Women’s History in 1998.^[28]

American Library Union (ALA) 2018 Choice, Outstanding Academic Title.^[29][30]

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