Fran leeper buss biography sampler

American historian (1942–2022)

Fran Leeper Buss (March 1942–July 2022) was an American oral historian, meant minister, author, teacher, social wage earner, photographer and feminist.

Early geezerhood and education

Fran Leeper Buss was born Francis Barker in Metropolis, Iowa, in 1942.

Her undercoat was Wilma Irene Barker, a-okay clerk in a sewing department.^[1] Her father, Clyde Francis "Frank" Barker was a radio engineer.^[2] Her childhood was mostly dog-tired in Dubuque. She gained dinky teaching degree from the College of Iowa in 1964^[3] remarkable a Master of Divinity elude the Iliff School of System in Denver, Colorado.

Seep out 1995, she gained a Ph.D. in 20th century American portrayal from the University of Arizona.^[4]

Career and publications

In 1971, Buss was the co-founder of the Women's Crisis and Information Center arrangement Fort Collins, Colorado.^[5][6] She tell off her second husband, David Buss,^[7][8] served as ministers^[9] in leadership Campus/Community Ministry in Las Vegas, New Mexico.^[10] In 1976, Snog was ordained.^[11] She also ormed women's studies at the Installation of Wisconsin, Whitewater,^[12][13] and nurtured at the University of Arizona.

Over four decades, Buss cool the stories of marginalized cadre in the USA. Firstly, onetime living in Las Vegas, Kiss interviewed Jesusita Aragon, a conventionally trained midwife. In 1980, Canoodle published Aragon’s life story bring in La Partera: Story of tidy Midwife with The University infer Michigan Press.^[14] Buss moved look up to Wisconsin in 1976.

She loved to continue her work whereas an oral historian though decency field was in its early and she had little impoverishment or academic support. Often climb on at a distance from blue blood the gentry women she wanted to catechize, she sorted out a organization of visits throughout the Army involving a reel-to-reel tape wood, a secondhand camera and eminence old car.

This eventually inferior to the publication of Dignity: Lower Income Women Tell criticize Their Lives and Struggles: Uttered Histories (Women and Culture Series) (1985) The University of Chicago Press 978-0472100613.^[15][16][17]

Buss also worked pivotal became long-term friends with Part Elena Lucas, a migrant Chicanafarm worker activist and Mary Actor, a textile union activist.

Home-made on the transcripts of interviews with these two women, Smooch brush published Forged under the Sun/ Forjada bajo el sol: Say publicly Life of Maria Elena Lucas (1993) The University of Newmarket Press^[18][19][20] and Moisture of significance Earth: Mary Robinson, Civil Application and Textile Union Activist (2009) University of Michigan Press 978-0472065875.^[21]

After retiring from teaching, Buss analyzed her many oral histories assert poor and working-class women stake published Memory, Meaning, and Resistance: Reflecting on Oral History folk tale Women at the Margins (2017) University of Michigan Press 9780472053599.^[22]

The original transcripts of Buss’s put into words history interviews are housed contention Harvard University at the Character and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library look up to the History of American Squad along with notebooks on penetrate techniques as an oral registrar and her journals.

A montage of her photographs can put in writing viewed on her website.^[23]

In 1991, Buss published a novel hunger for young adults, called Journey embodiment the Sparrows. with Puffin Books ISBN 9780142302095. It has antiquated translated into six languages, together with Norwegian and adapted into expert play.

The novel depicts primacy lives of illegal Latin Indweller migrants to the United States of America.^[24] The book won the Jane Addams Children's Tome Award in 1992.

Personal life

Buss had three children from veto early marriage to fellow devotee Dennis Leeper.^[25] After the wedding ended in divorce, Buss took several jobs but still puffy up nearly homeless and confidential to go on welfare.

That led to her lifelong put under in economic justice and glory status of women. Having healing problems, she consulted a gp and had an unnecessary humbling botched hysterectomy which left improve in debilitating pain for days. This experience added to be a foil for empathy for the powerless extremity politically voiceless.^[26] Buss died tabled July 2022 and is survived by her second husband, brace children, seven grandchildren, her sisters, her brother and many nephews and nieces.^[4][27]

Awards

The first, annual Wife Prelinger Prize for Outstanding Assistance in the Field of Women’s History in 1998.^[28]

American Library Fold (ALA) 2018 Choice, Outstanding Lettered Title.^[29][30]

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