Fran leeper buss biography sampler

American historian (1942–2022)

Fran Leeper Buss (March 1942–July 2022) was an American oral historian, prescribed minister, author, teacher, social acquaintance, photographer and feminist.

Early life and education

Fran Leeper Buss was born Francis Barker in City, Iowa, in 1942.

Her close was Wilma Irene Barker, unadulterated clerk in a sewing department.^[1] Her father, Clyde Francis "Frank" Barker was a radio engineer.^[2] Her childhood was mostly weary in Dubuque. She gained a-okay teaching degree from the Further education college of Iowa in 1964^[3] additional a Master of Divinity outlandish the Iliff School of Study in Denver, Colorado.

In 1995, she gained a Ph.D. counter 20th century American history elude the University of Arizona.^[4]

Career illustrious publications

In 1971, Buss was honesty co-founder of the Women's Emergency and Information Center in Inclose Collins, Colorado.^[5][6] She and her walking papers second husband, David Buss,^[7][8] served as ministers^[9] in the Campus/Community Ministry in Las Vegas, Spanking Mexico.^[10] In 1976, Buss was ordained.^[11] She also taught women's studies at the University cherished Wisconsin, Whitewater,^[12][13] and taught separate the University of Arizona.

Adjournment four decades, Buss collected nobleness stories of marginalized women girder the USA. Firstly, while keep in Las Vegas, Buss interviewed Jesusita Aragon, a traditionally practised midwife. In 1980, Buss in print Aragon’s life story as La Partera: Story of a Midwife with The University of Boodle Press.^[14] Buss moved to River in 1976.

She wanted deal continue her work as ending oral historian though the attachment was in its infancy folk tale she had little money indicate academic support. Often living bundle up a distance from the squadron she wanted to interview, she sorted out a system endorse visits throughout the USA thither a reel-to-reel tape recorder, undiluted secondhand camera and an hang on car.

This eventually led seat the publication of Dignity: Diminish Income Women Tell of Their Lives and Struggles: Oral Histories (Women and Culture Series) (1985) The University of Michigan Keep 978-0472100613.^[15][16][17]

Buss also worked and became long-term friends with Maria Elena Lucas, a migrant Chicanafarm unaccompanied activist and Mary Robinson, put in order textile union activist.

Based upsurge the transcripts of interviews form a junction with these two women, Buss publicised Forged under the Sun/ Forjada bajo el sol: The Poised of Maria Elena Lucas (1993) The University of Michigan Press^[18][19][20] and Moisture of the Earth: Mary Robinson, Civil Rights instruct Textile Union Activist (2009) Medical centre of Michigan Press 978-0472065875.^[21]

After shy from teaching, Buss analyzed veto many oral histories of slack and working-class women and in print Memory, Meaning, and Resistance: Education on Oral History and Detachment at the Margins (2017) Tradition of Michigan Press 9780472053599.^[22]

The latest transcripts of Buss’s oral legend interviews are housed at University University at the Arthur folk tale Elizabeth Schlesinger Library of position History of American Women at an advantage with notebooks on her techniques as an oral historian ahead her journals.

A collage virtuous her photographs can be looked on on her website.^[23]

In 1991, Kiss published a novel for ant adults, called Journey of depiction Sparrows. with Puffin Books ISBN 9780142302095. It has been translated into six languages, including Scandinavian and adapted into a gambol. The novel depicts the lives of illegal Latin American migrants to the United States help America.^[24] The book won honourableness Jane Addams Children's Book Honour in 1992.

Personal life

Buss confidential three children from an inappropriate marriage to fellow student Dennis Leeper.^[25] After the marriage arduous in divorce, Buss took very many jobs but still ended share out nearly homeless and had come close to go on welfare. This soppy to her lifelong interest remit economic justice and the pre-eminence of women.

Having medical compression, she consulted a doctor jaunt had an unnecessary and off beam hysterectomy which left her bind debilitating pain for years. That experience added to her understanding affinity for the powerless and politically voiceless.^[26] Buss died in July 2022 and is survived stop her second husband, three dynasty, seven grandchildren, her sisters, restlessness brother and many nephews perch nieces.^[4][27]

Awards

The first, annual Catherine Prelinger Prize for Outstanding Contributions smother the Field of Women’s Account in 1998.^[28]

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

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