Leandra Zarnow is an associate professor in the Department of History and affiliated faculty with the Center for Public History, the Rockwell Center for Ethics and Leadership, Jewish Studies, and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at University of Houston. She is a specialist in modern U.S. women’s political, legal, and intellectual history with additional interests in media and transnational studies. Her first book, Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug, was published by Harvard in 2019. She also co-edited with Stacie Taranto, Suffrage at 100: Women in American Politics since 1920, published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2020. Zarnow’s next book, to appear with W.W. Norton & Company, is a collective biography of vivacious globe-trotting women whose paths crossed at lively meetings of the early 20th century feminist supper club Heterodoxy. She also keeps busy co-directing a wide-ranging digital humanities project, Sharing Stories from 1977: Putting the National Women’s Conference on the Map, which documents the participants of and legacy of the 1977 National Women’s Conference. Her commentary on women in politics has appeared in Time, the Washington Post, Axios, the Houston Chronicle, and Houston’s NPR, Pacifica Radio, and PBS.