Ashley Baggett

Baggett, Ashley and Christi R. McGeorge. Nothing Less Than Justice: North Dakota and the 1977 National Women's Conference. Fargo, ND: North Dakota State University Press, 2026. (in press)

Hochhalter, Zachary, Justin J. Wageman, Teresa Shume, and Ashley Baggett. 2026. “A Practitioner Study on Preferences for Informal Learning Resources and Collaboration between Social Studies Teachers and Historic Site Supervisors.” Journal of Geoscience Education, February, 1–9. doi:10.1080/10899995.2026.2632106.

Baggett, Ashley. "Intimate Partner Violence in Modern Texas" in "Steeped in a Culture of Violence": Violence in Modern Texas, 1965-2018, eds. Brandon T. Jett and Kenneth W. Howell. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2023.

Baggett, Ashley and Carol A. Bentley. "Alleged Crusades' and 'Self-Fooled Reformers': The Rise and Fall of White Slavery Hysteria in the 1910s," Historical Sex Work: New Contributions from History and Archaeology. Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2020.

Baggett, Ashley. "Domestic Violence." The World of Antebellum America: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press/ABC-CLIO, 2018.

Baggett, Ashley. Intimate Partner Violence: Gender, Race, and Reform, 1840 to 1900. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017.

Baggett, Ashley. "The Mississippi State Sanatorium: Pioneering Tuberculosis Treatment during the 1920 and 1930s," Journal of Mississippi History, Volume 74, Number 3 (Fall 2012).

Selected Conference Presentations

Chair and commentator, “Unexpected Activism: Gender, Race, and the Struggle for Rights in the West and Midwest, 1870 – 1910,” (Sponsored by Women’s History Interest Group), Great Plains History Conference, Mankato, MN, September 19, 2025.

Presenter and panel discussant. “Liberating the Body: Bodily Autonomy in the North Dakota Women’s Movement, 1960-1980,” Red River Women’s Studies Conference, Moorhead, MN, March 24, 2023 (regional).

Panel organizer and presenter, “Reclaiming History,” Annual National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN, November, 11, 2022 (international).

Panel organizer and presenter, “The Women’s Movement in North Dakota During the 1970s,” Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference, Fargo, ND, September 23, 2022 (regional).

Moderator and commentator, “"Effects of Cultural Exchange on Colonial Concepts of Gender," Annual Northern Great Plains History Conference, Fargo, ND, September 22, 2022 (regional).

Panel organizer and presenter, “Demanding the Right to Be Free from Violence: African American Women, Religion, and Domestic Abuse, 1880-1900,” Extra-Legal Activism and the Paths to Freedom for African Americans in the Nineteenth Century, Organization of American Historians (national), 2021 Annual Meeting, April 15-18, 2021.

Panel organizer and presenter, Baggett, A. “Gender and Global Conflict,” National Women’s Studies Association (international), 2021 Annual Meeting, September 17, 2021.

Presenter, American Historical Association, “Life Happens: Maneuvering Career Diversity, Family, and the Demands of the Academy,” Annual Conference, New York, NY, January 3-6, 2020.

Selected Guest Speaker Invitations

"Pioneering Public Libraries in North Dakota," 125th Anniversary Celebration, Fargo Public Library, March 24, 2026.

Presidential Session, “Confronting Institutional & Legislative Attacks on Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Programs,” National Women’s Studies Association 2022 Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, November 11, 2022 (international).

"’For the Cause of Human Progress’: Public Health Nursing, Women, and Reform During the Progressive Era,” Fargo-Moorhead Veteran’s Affairs, 2022 Women’s History Month Event, Fargo, ND, March 22, 2022.

Keynote Speaker, “Between the Waves: The 1977 National Women’s Conference and 2nd Wave Feminism,” 2022 Tri-College History Lecture, NDSU History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, Fargo, ND, April 12, 2022.

“‘Strike Me If You Dare’: Intimate Partner Violence in New Orleans During Reconstruction,” Women's History Month Event, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 18, 2021.

Keynote Speaker, “The National Women’s Conference,” Beta Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma in North Dakota, April 3, 2021.

Keynote Speaker, “The 19th Amendment and Its Legacy,” National Association for Legal Professions of Fargo-Moorhead, Fargo Country Club, Law Day, June 3, 2020.

Selected Expert Consultant/Interviews

Interview, “Teaching History That is ‘Uncomfortable,’” Tyler Axness Live in the Afternoons on KFGO, February 2, 2022.

Expert Consultant/Interview, “Controversies Over Civil War Era Confederate Monuments,”
Prairie Public’s Prairie Pulse, October 21, 2021.

Interview, “First Female Vice President” on “It Takes 2 with Amy & JJ” KFGO 790 AM,
November 9, 2020.

Interview, NDSU News, “Inspiring Teacher,” September 17, 2020.

Expert Consultant, USA TODAY’s “Women of the Century,” 2020.

Interview, WDAY North Dakota Today, “NDSU Event to Celebrate Women’s History Month,” 2020.

Interview, ¨Those Feminists´: North Dakota Women Left Their Mark on Historic, Federally Funded Conference in 1977," The Forum and WDAY News at 10, April 27, 2019.

Interview, “Community Members Come Together to Debate Solutions to Domestic Violence,” The Forum, March 10, 2019.

Interview, “Think & Drink: Fostering Important Discussions,” High Plains Reader, February 27, 2019.

Expert Consultant, “Megan Mullally,” Who Do You Think You Are?, TLC, aired May 28, 2018.

Interview, “Our History is Our Strength,” High Plains Reader, January 11, 2017.