Lauren Bickell (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In broad strokes, her research examines how knowledge, time, and the politics thereof contour historical U.S. women’s rights. Bickell situates her research at multidisciplinary junctions of history, philosophy, and sociology. In a prior project, she analyzed how categories of “woman” circulated in select mid-nineteenth-century U.S. women’s rights speeches. Although such categories were common, their meanings reflected differing knowledges of gendered plight and competing solutions to redress it. For example, “woman” contracted, expanded, and morphed via knowledge sources such as political theory and experience imbued by social locations of race and citizenship status. This research culminated in a publication at Hypatia, available open-access. Now, in her dissertation research, Bickell explores U.S. women’s suffrage monuments, a growing, albeit scarce, case of commemoration. She seeks to highlight the impetus for their growth, peel back the monumental form, and puncture its limits of time-sense and progress. Bickell holds a Master of Arts (MA) in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sociology from the University of California, Davis.