What is The Cassandra Project?
The Cassandra Project is an advocacy and education organization that focuses on providing resources about sexual harassment guidelines for students who are pursuing a higher level of history education.
Following the significant #MeToo movement, sharing brave stories has helped many people worldwide. We provide sexual harassment guidelines at southern universities, suggest questions to ask and offer other information about sexual harassment and the academy. We conducted thorough research and created a helpful and easy-to-use site for history grad students. We plan on providing more research for other universities in the near future.
What do we do?
We are there.
The Cassandra Project was created after the major #MeToo movement. We make sure that everyone’s voices are heard.
We provide Education.
We conduct thorough research on the universities that are listed in our graduate program tab. We also list the sexual harassment guidelines for each university listed.
We are humans.
We do not provide private information in complaints against sexual harassment in these universities. We list the complaints and the outcomes.
How did we start?
Historian Catherine Clinton, the Denman Endowed Professor in American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio delivered the presidental address at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association in St. Pete Beach, Florida.
The paper documents Clinton’s path through academia and the strength and challenges of the Southern Historical Association from the eyes of a female professor using the myth of Cassandra to focus her story.
Clinton, Catherine. “The Southern Social Network.” Journal of Southern History 83, no. 1 (2017): 7-36. https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2017.0000