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GWonline, the Bibliography, Filmography and Webography on Gender and War since 1600

The Aims of the GWonline Project

GWonline, the Bibliography, Filmography and Webography on Gender and War since 1600 collects and organizes secondary literature, women’s autobiographies, films and  websites with primary documents on the subject of gender, military and war to make them available to the public. Alongside full text searching, it allows users to explore the collection through multiple entry points: author or director, publication or release date, collection, major wars, countries and regions or keywords. With its more than 8.000 carefully curated entries  it aims to be a useful resource that informs students, teachers and researchers. GWonline is connected to The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600, edited by Karen Hagemann, Stefan Dudink and Sonya A. Rose (Oxford University Press, 2020). It also allows a literature search by Handbook chapters.

Our newest addition, GWonline Learning & Teaching, provides students, high school teachers and college instructors with suggestions of selected material  (literature, websites with maps, timelines and primary sources, autobiographies, films) for the studying and teaching of seven major conflicts in modern global history. In addition, GWonline Learning & Teaching offers a Syllabus Collection for instructors. 

GWonline is based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a collaboration of the UNC  Department of History,  UNC IT Research Computing, the  UNC Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense and UNC Library and Information Technology. It was created as a non-for-profit project with the help of a  team of graduate and undergraduate students and the aim to train them in public history and digitial humanities.

Please visit the GWonline website and

The GWonline project is connected to The Oxford Handbook of Gender,  War and the Western World since 1600, edited by Karen Hagemann, Stefan Dudink and Sonya O. Rose (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020). The agenda of the handbook has informed the content of GWonline.

For more on the Oxford Handbook please go to our subsite or the Oxford University Press website.

Sponsors of GWonline

GWonline is sponsored and supported by:

  • UNC Department of History
  • UNC Chapel Hill Libraries
  • UNC College of Arts & Sciences
  • UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities
  • UNC ITS Research Computing
  • UNC Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense
  • Triangel Institute for Security Studies

Project Team

Academic Board:

  • Karen Hagemann (UNC Chapel Hill, History Department)
    (Project Director)
  • Stefan Dudink (Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Gender Studies)

Past and Present Project Coordinators:

  • Friederike Bruehoefener, Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill, History, November 2013 – June 2014)
  • Kristen Dolan, Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill, History, June 2014 – November 2014)
  • Brittany Lehman, Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill, History, November 2014 – August 2016)
  • Aaron Hale-Dorrell, Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill, History, August 2016 – June 2017)
  • Anndal G. Narayanan, Ph.D. (UNC Chapel Hill, History, August 2016 – July  2017)
  • Jenni Royce, M.A. (UNC Chapel Hill, M.S.L.S. Library Science, August 2017 – June 2018)
  • Elizabeth Stillwell, B.A. (UNC Chapel Hill, M.S.L.S. Library Science, Graduate Project Assistant, August 2017 – May 2018, Co-coordinator  August 2018 – May 2019)
  • Katie Laird, M.A.  (UNC Chapel Hill, History Department, since August 2019), email: klaird@live.unc.edu

For all other students team members click here

Contact

Karen Hagemann
James G. Kenan Distinguished Professor of History
and Adjunct Professor of the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of History
Hamilton Hall, CB #3195
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195
Email: hagemann@unc.edu