Jennifer Banning Tomás is Professor of American history at Piedmont Virginia Community College.
A 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.
In 2025 her first scholarly monograph, Reclaiming Clio: Making American Women’s History, 1900-2000, was published by the University of North Carolina Press.
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 Award.
Tomás specializes in the social and political history of Modern America, women and gender, and social movements.
She can be reached at jtomas@pvcc.edu or clioreclaimed@clioreclaimed.org
