Cultivating Victory

“Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant offers an original look at the back and forth conversations between the women (and the governments) of Britain and the United States as they defined urban women's responsibilities in securing food production during the First and Second World Wars. Exhaustively researched, with an engaging set of illustrations from the period, Cultivating Victory convincingly lays out the shift from growing roses in support of home to growing tomatoes in support of troops, leading in the process to a more complex understanding of the relationships among nationalism, internationalism, food production, and women's roles in all these arenas during the twentieth century.”

Vera Norwood, University of New Mexico, emeritus

Women Warriors: A Vision of Valor

Gowdy-Wygant served as the historian and screen writer for this Front Range Community College production. Multi-media graphic design students interviewed 10 female Colorado veterans from WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Desert Storm, the Iraq War, and Afghanistan War. Gowdy-Wygant wrote the narrative script to weave the stories together as part of a Library of Congress Veterans History Project film documenting the evolving role of women in war.

Watch the Women Warriors film here

Conference Presentations

American Conference for Irish Studies

San José State University

June 7th, 2023

“Come Back to Erin: Intersections of Gender, Nature, and Immigration in Sheet Music of 19th and Early 20th Century America”