Professor of History
Piedmont Virginia Community College

Jennifer Banning Tomás is a professor of history at Piedmont Virginia Community College. She specializes in teaching United States social and political history. Her research focuses on modern American women, their civic and political engagement since the 1920s, and their efforts to secure women’s places in the formal narratives of American history during the twentieth century. Dr. Tomás recently published her book, “Reclaiming Clio: Making American Women’s History, 1900-2000.” She earned her Ph.D. in modern U.S. history from Binghamton University

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