Interview of Rudine Sims Bishop by Evelyn Freeman

Rudine Sims Bishop recalls her career as a professor focusing on multicultural children’s literature in the College of Education. Bishop came to OSU in 1986 after teaching at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. After graduating from the West Chester State Teachers College, she taught school for a number of years, then made the shift to University teaching when she was hired as an instructor at Wayne State University while earning her doctorate there. At OSU, she was hired as a Professor in the School of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education. At the time, she was only the second African-American female full professor on campus. Bishop retired in 2002, and she won the University’s Distinguished Service Award in 2013. During the interview, Bishop also discusses the climate in the College of Education for women and minority faculty and staff; her role in hiring faculty and a dean for the College; and the efforts to diversify the student body in the College. She also speaks about general equity issues and diversification efforts at the University

Voices of Women

This episode of Buckeye History Live combines excerpts from five oral histories with Ohio State University women from the Voices of Women project, a collaboration between The Women's Place and the University Archives. Deb Ballam, emeritus professor of business and former Director of The Women’s Place, talks about her involvement in activism as an undergraduate at Miami and then her advocacy for women’s and LGBT rights as a law student at OSU. Rudine Sims Bishop, emeritus professor of education, discusses her identities as both a woman and an African-American and the impact those identities have had on the trajectory of her life and career. Shirley Dunlap Bowser, 1956 OSU grad and former member of the Board of Trustees, tells about her time as an undergraduate. Gay Hadley, former Assistant Vice President for Human Resources, talks about her experiences as a non-traditional student and a University administrator. Susan Hartmann, emeritus professor of history and women’s studies and former Director of the Center for Women’s Studies, discusses being a female professor at OSU.Audio: Welcome and Introductions (00:00:00-00:01:02); Interviewee - Dr. Deborah Ballam, Emeritus Professor of Business, The Ohio State University, Former Director of The Women's Place (00:01:03-00:20:13); Interviewee - Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop, Emeritus Professor of Education, The Ohio State University (00:20:14-00:27:32); Interviewee - Shirley Dunlap Bowser, Former Member of The Ohio State University Board of Trustees (00:27:33-00:44:44); Interviewee - Gay Hadley, Former Assistant Vice President for Human Resources, The Ohio State University (00:44:45-00:57:29); Interviewee - Susan Hartmann, Emeritus Professor of History and Women's Studies, The Ohio State University, Former Director of the Center for Women's Studies (00:57:30-01:14:49); Conclusion (01:14:50-01:15:12