Clio Reclaimed: A site about the history, production, and power of women’s and gender history.

About the Author of Reclaiming Clio:

Jennifer Banning Tomás is Professor of American history at Piedmont Virginia Community College. A 2012 graduate of Binghamton University, S.U.N.Y, where the first formal PhD program in women’s history was established in the United States in 1974, there she developed a keen sense of the power of women’s and gender history to inspire–and to expose the ways in which gendered relations of power have affected the lives and possibilities of people in different times and places.

Tomás spends much of her time teaching general American history survey courses and she regularly teaches a special course on the History of American Women’s Civic and Social Activism. She has published articles and reviews in a variety of mediums.

In 2026, Tomás was the recipient of two statewide awards for excellence in teaching and scholarship in Virginia: The Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence from the Virginia Community College System, and a State Council of Higher Education for Virginia–Outstanding Faculty Awards. Winners of both awards embody the best qualities in teaching, scholarship, service, and knowledge integration.

Tomás specializes in the social and political history of Modern America, women and gender, and social movements.

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Clio Reclaimed: A site about the history, production, and power of women’s and gender history.

About the Author of Reclaiming Clio:

Jennifer Banning Tomás is Professor of American history at Piedmont Virginia Community College. A 2012 graduate of Binghamton University, S.U.N.Y, where the first formal PhD program in women’s history was established in the United States in 1974, there she developed a keen sense of the power of women’s and gender history to inspire–and to expose the ways in which gendered relations of power have affected the lives and possibilities of people in different times and places.

Tomás spends much of her time teaching general American history survey courses and she regularly teaches a special course on the History of American Women’s Civic and Social Activism. She has published articles and reviews in a variety of mediums.

In 2026, Tomás was the recipient of two statewide awards for excellence in teaching and scholarship in Virginia: The Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence from the Virginia Community College System, and a State Council of Higher Education for Virginia–Outstanding Faculty Awards. Winners of both awards embody the best qualities in teaching, scholarship, service, and knowledge integration.

Tomás specializes in the social and political history of Modern America, women and gender, and social movements.

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