Bio

Gowdy-Wygant is an author and professor in the fields of history and women’s and gender studies. Areas of interest and research include the intersections of nature, gender, and identity.

Official Bio

Dr. Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant currently teaches history and women's and gender studies at Front Range Community College (FRCC) and at Metropolitan State University of Denver.  Gowdy-Wygant earned a Ph.D. in History from Texas Tech University in 2007 and taught in the department of history there from 2003 to 2007.  Gowdy-Wygant is the recipient of the 2013 FRCC Teaching Excellence Award, and was the past recipient of the 2011 Outstanding Advisor Award from Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society.  Past service commitments to the profession include the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Organization of American Historians.  At FRCC, Gowdy-Wygant currently serves as the Lead Faculty for History and Women and Gender Studies at the Westminster campus, and the Lead Faculty for Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies for the Online campus.

Published works include Cultivating Victory: The Women’s Land Army and Victory Garden Movements, an analysis of British and American efforts to increase food production during the world wars.  It includes the lost history of women who cultivated the land during wartime, and by doing so shaped both national and personal identities.  In addition, Gowdy-Wygant served as the historian and screenwriter for the award-winning documentary, Women Warriors: A Vision of Valor, with Front Range Community College and the Veteran’s History Project of the Library of Congress.  Gowdy-Wygant is a frequent contributor to the field of history, with publications in the Encyclopedia of American Environmental History, the Encyclopedia of American Women’s History, the Journal of British Studies, the Journal of Southern History, Environmental History, Environmental Studies and Science, and many others.   

Gowdy-Wygant travels around the US sharing research, and has served as a guest historian on NPR.  Additional service to the profession includes editorial and peer review work for many academic publishing houses including McGraw Hill, Bedford St. Martins, and Oxford University Press.