Susan McKay papers, 1970-2017

Overview of the Collection

Creator
McKay, Susan, 1942-
Title
Susan McKay papers
Dates
1970-2017 (inclusive)
Quantity
12.76 cubic ft. (18 boxes) + 4.49 GB
Collection Number
400036
Summary
Research, oral history interviews, and instructional material related to women at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, pregnancy in rural Wyoming, and women of armed conflict and peace-building.
Repository
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
Access Restrictions

Series IV. Personal papers, boxes 15-18 and digital folders ahcdm_400036_024-048 are restricted from use until January 1, 2060 except to Julie McKay and Sharon McKay.

Languages
English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Susan McKay was born on July 26, 1942 in Los Angeles, California to L.F. and Ethel Richardson. Following her graduation from DePauw University in Indiana, she and her husband, John, moved to Boulder, Colorado where she earned a master's degree in maternal child nursing at the University of Colorado. In 1966, they moved to Laramie, Wyoming where her daughters, Julie and Sharon, were born. She earned a Ph.D. in 1978 at the University of Wyoming and was a W.K. Kellogg National Fellow from 1983-1986. In 2000 she was awarded the Presidential Faculty Achievement Award at the University of Wyoming where she was a professor of Women's and International Studies.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Susan McKay collection contains research materials, audio tapes and transcripts of interviews, and other materials from McKay's research on the Heart Mountain Japanese Relocation Center near Cody, Wyoming during World War II and the resulting publication, "The Courage Our Stories Tell: The Daily Lives and Maternal Child Health Care of Japanese American Women at Heart Mountain", published in 2002. Also included are series of audio visual instructional materials, research, photographs, slides, articles, and books regarding pregnant women in rural Wyoming; and research files, presentations, photographs, slides, books, and articles regarding McKay's research of women/mothers from areas of armed conflict such as Sierra Leone in West Africa.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

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Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Susan McKay Papers, Collection Number 400036, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by Susan McKay at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

This material was received from Susan McKay from 2006-2017.

Processing Note

The collection was processed by Rhonda Wright in April 2006, Shaun Hayes in June 2013, Chelsea Nelson in February 2015, and updated by Jamie J. Greene in October 2016, and April 2018.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I. Materials pertaining to the Heart Mountian Relocation CenterReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Sub-Series 1. Subject Files
Contains correspondence, transcripts of interviews with Heart Mountain Relocation Center internees and other materials.
Box Folder
1 1
Addresses
undated
1 2-3
Books
undated
8
Books by Susan McKay: "The Courage Our Stories Tell"
2002
Folder
1 4-6
Correspondence
1994-2003, undated
1 7
Courage our Stories Tell
undated
1 8
Fiset, Louis -- Papers
undated
1 9
Health reports
undated
1 10
Heart Mountain Interviews--Abe, Atsuoko
undated
1 11
Heart Mountain Interviews--Comparison Chart
undated
1 12
Heart Mountain Interviews--Emi, Amy
undated
1 13
Heart Mountain Interviews--Emi, Susi
undated
1 14
Heart Mountain Interviews--Endo, Ada
undated
1 15
Heart Mountain Interviews--Group
undated
1 16
Heart Mountain Interviews--Hironaka, Katie
undated
1 17
Heart Mountain Interviews--Jio, Mary
undated
1 18
Heart Mountain Interviews--Kawakami, Mary
undated
1 19
Heart Mountain Interviews--Kessel, Velma
undated
1 20
Heart Mountain Interviews--Komatsu, Michi
undated
1 21
Heart Mountain Interviews--Kuromiya, Emiko
undated
1 22
Heart Mountain Interviews--Ikegami, Midori
undated
1 23
Heart Mountain Interviews--Masunaga, Hiroko
undated
1 24
Heart Mountain Interviews--Masunaka,Mitsuko
undated
1 25
Heart Mountain Interviews--Morita, Fumiye
undated
1 26
Heart Mountain Interviews--Pease, Aiko
undated
1 27
Heart Mountain Interviews--Shiba, Rose
undated
1 28
Heart Mountain Interviews--Takagi, Mary
undated
1 29
Heart Mountain Interviews--Toriumi, Sophie
undated
1 30
Heart Mountain Interviews--Uriu, Alice
undated
1 31
Heart Mountain Interviews--Watanabe, Chiye
undated
1 32
Heart Mountain Interviews--Yoritsune,Shigeko
undated
1 33
Non-Heart Mountain Interviews--Beckwith, Emiko Somekawa
1997
1 34
Non-Heart Mountain Interviews--Latham, Elizabeth
undated
1 35
Non-Heart Mountain Interviews--Nishizu, Clarence I.
1966
1 36
Non-Heart Mountain Interviews--Pease, Aiko Horikoshi
1993
1 37
Non-Heart Mountain Interviews--Kunitsugu, Katsumi
1973
1 38
Non-Heart Mountain Interviews--Ishii, Amy Uno
1973
2 1
Heart Mountain Logo
undated
2 2
Heart Mountain Records
undated
2 3
Institutional Review Board Material and Releases
undated
2 4
Los Angeles, CA Interviews
undated
2 5
Miscellaneous
undated
2 6
Morita, Fumiya -- Relocation
undated
2 7
Notes
undated
2 8-9
Photographs
undated
10
Publications: Heart Mountain
undated
Folder
2 10-18
References
undated
2 19
Resources- Collection Guides
1986-1994
2 20
San Jose, CA Interviews
undated
12
Slides: Heart Mountain women and children
1984, 1996
12
Slides: Japan Lecture, Stress Management Workshop, Heart Mt. Presentation
1980s
12
Slides: Kellog Fellows, Heart Mountain Lecture
undated
Folder
2 21
Surveys
undated
2 22-23
Susan McKay Biographical Material
undated
Sub-Series 2. Audio-Visual Materials
Contains audio cassette tapes of interviews with Heart Mountain Relocation Center internees and a video tape of an interview with internee Charlene Yoritsune
Box Item
3 1-2
Cassette Tapes--Atsuko, Abe
March 2, 1995
3 3-4
Cassette Tapes--Emi, Amy
September 9, 1994
3 5-6
Cassette Tapes--Emi, Susie
September 11, 1994
3 7
Cassette Tapes--Endo, Ada
August 18, 1994
3 8-9
Cassette Tapes--Kawakami, Mary Hidaki
November 11, 1997
3 10-11
Cassette Tapes--Hironaka, Katie
March 9, 1995
3 12-13
Cassette Tapes--Ikegami, Midori
September 19, 1994
3 14-15
Cassette Tapes--Jio, Mary
September 19, 1994
3 16-17
Cassette Tapes--Komatsu, Michi
March 6, 1993
4 1-2
Cassette Tapes--Kuomiya, Emiko
September 10, 1994
4 3-4
Cassette Tapes--Masunaga, Hiroko
September 8, 1994
4 5-6
Cassette Tapes--Masunaka, Mitsuko
September 10, 1994
4 7-8
Cassette Tapes--Morrita, Fumi
September 10, 1994
4 9-12
Cassette Tapes--Pease, Aiko
August 17, 1994
4 13-14
Cassette Tapes--Shiba, Rose
March 7, 1995
4 15-16
Cassette Tapes--Takagi, Mary
December 10, 1997
4 17
Cassette Tapes--Toriumi, Sophie
March 3, 1995
5 1-3
Cassette Tapes--Toriumi, Sophie
March 3, 1995
5 4-5
Cassette Tapes--Uriu, Alice
December 12, 1997
5 6-7
Cassette Tapes--Watanabe, Chiye
March 6, 1995
5 8-9
Cassette Tapes--Yoritsune, Shigeko
March 9, 1995
5 10-11
Cassette Tapes--Group -- Martha Hirose, Okuri Yamamoto, Mary Akasi, Grace Isitani
March 7, 1993
Folder
Digital ahcdm_400036_001-005
Manuscript and book artwork on CD and zip disks
undated
Box Item
6 1
Yoritsune, Charlene Interview on VHS Tape
undated
12
Video: Dr. McKay, Heart Mountain, Wyo, Channel 5, Cheyenne (VHS)
2002
Sub-Series 3. Oversize
Contains Artwork and a panoramic photograph of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming, and a bag from a 1997 Heart Mountain reunion.
Box Item
6 2
Artwork
undated
6 3
Panoramic photograph
undated
6 3
Reunion bag
1997
7 1
The Courage our Stories Tell: The daily lives of Maternal Child Health Care of Japanese American Women at Heart Mountain
2002

Series II. Materials pertaining to Pregnancy and ChildbirthReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Sub-Series 1. Subject Files
Box
Books written by Susan McKay:
Box
8
Assertive Childbirth
1983
8
Family-Centered Maternity Care
1984
8
A Study of the Effects of Peer Counseling of Junior Nursing Students at the University of Wyoming
1978
8
Teaching Strategies for Emotional Transition to Parenthood
1983
9
FDA Consumer Advisory Commission
undated
9
Manuscript: Stress Management for Pregnancy and Birth - Releases Book #3
undated
9
Manuscript on child birth
undated
14
Negatives: child birth, miscellaneous (black and white 35mm)
1980s
13
Photographs: Lamaze classes, Birth photos
1980s
9
Presentation Papers
undated
9
Presidential Award Nominee Susan Anne McKay notebook
undated
8
Publications: Maternal Child Health
1983-1993
11
Slides: Mod 1-4, Series I final
undated
11
Slides: Mod 1-8, Series II final
undated
12
Slides: American Childbirth
1984, 1996
12
Slides: Obstetrics lectures
1980s
13
Slides: UN Women's Conf., Japan birth lectures, Birth humanizing birth, USSR "peace" trips, Obstetric tour
1982, 1985, 1986
9
Unpublished book drawings by Charles Mahaw, M.D. obstetrician
1983
Sub-Series 2. Audio-Visual Materials
Box
7
Reaching Out, Early Pregnancy Series (instructional self-help kit for pregnant rural women, containing a diary guide, topical cassettes, and related film canisters, written and published by Susan McKay)
1970s
11
Audio: Mod 3-4, Series I - 1/2 track master tape (7" reel to reel tape)
undated
11
Audio: Mod 5, Series II - 1/2 track master tape (7" reel to reel tape)
undated
11
Audio: Mod 8, Series II - 1/2 track master tape (2 - 7" reel to reel tapes)
undated
11
Audio: Mod 1-4, Series I - 1/2 track master (6 - 5" reel to reel tapes)
undated
11
Audio: Mod 1-8, Series II - 1/2 track master (13 - 5" reel to reel tapes)
undated
11
Audio: Mod 1-4, Series I (6 cassette tapes)
undated
11
Audio: Mod 1-8, Series II (12 cassette tapes)
undated
11
Audio: "Reaching Out" Series I, Modules 1-4 (4 cassette tapes)
undated
11
Audio: "Reaching Out" Series II, Modules 1-8 (8 cassette tapes)
undated
12
Film: Birth in the Squatting Position #3 (16mm)
June 21, 1983
12
Video: Second State Labor Project, Uwyo (VHS)
undated

Series III. Materials pertaining to Women, Girls, Armed conflict, and Peace-buildingReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box
Articles by Susan McKay:
Box
10
Gender, Peacebuilding, & Reconstruction
2005
10
Children & Conflict
2011
10
Afro dall'Africa sull'Africa
2003
10
Gender & Development
2006
10
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist
2001
10
Handbook on Participatory Methods for Community-based Projects
2010
10
Community-Based Reintegration of War-Effected Young Mothers
2010
10
Studies in Conflict & Terrorism
2005
10
A World turned Upside Down
2006
10
Culture, Religion, & the Reintegration of Female Child Soldiers in North Uganda
2010
Books written by Susan McKay:
Box
8
Where are the Girls?
2004
8
Women & Peacebuilding
1999
Folder
13 and Digital ahcdm_400036_006 and 010
Bellagio Conference (presentations and images)
2005-2006
Digital ahcdm_400036_019-022
Bellagio Conference pictures (4 CDS)
2005
Box
10
Dr. Susan McKay, Media Tech - "Raising Women's Voices for Peacebuilding"
undated
10
Jeminie Shell Masters Thesis - "An Analysis of Community-Based Psychosocial and Economic Reintegration Efforts by Young Mothers Formerly Associated with Armed Groups in Sierra Leone"
2010
13
Photo album: Round the world trip to study women's peacebuilding
1999
13
Photo Badges - Susan McKay (3)
undated
Folder
Digital ahcdm_400036_023
Photographs: Africa work, Miranda Worthen
2003
Box
13
Photographs: St. Petersburg
1988
Folder
Digital ahcdm_400036_016-018
Photographs: Sierra Leone, pics by Miranda Worthen
2003
Digital ahcdm_400036_009
Photographs: writing workshop, SL pictures (CD)
2003-2004
Box
Presentations:
Folder
Digital ahcdm_400036_015
Broken Hearts presentation, PowerPoint (CD)
2003-2004
Digital ahcdm_400036_014
Girls at War presentation, PowerPoint (CD)
April 2005
Digital ahcdm_400036_013
Reconstructing Fragile Lives - Ohio State presentation, PowerPoint (CD)
April 2004
Digital ahcdm_400036_008
Returned and Neglected: Portland symposium presentation, PowerPoint (CD)
June 2005
Digital ahcdm_400036_007
Sierra Leone presentation (PowerPoint) - Miranda Worthen (CD)
December 2003
Digital ahcdm_400036_012
What is Peace Psychology/Gender presentation, PowerPoint (CD)
2003
10
Publications: Miscellaneous
undated
8
Publications: Peace & Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology Vol. 9-14
2003-2009
10
Research - Women & Peacebuilding Papers
undated
10
Rights & Democracy, Press Clippings
2004
9
Seminar notes: Democratization, Perestroika & Glasnost, Implications for US/USSR
1988
12
Slides: Peace Psych presentation address, "Bridges for Peace"
1984, 1996
12
Slides: USSR peace trips, Bridges to Peace
undated
12
Video: Beijing (VHS)
undated
Folder
Digital ahcdm_400036_011
Videos and pictures: PAR (CD)
2007-2009

Series IV. Personal Papers (Restricted from use until January 1, 2060)Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box
15
Diaries (personal)
1956-2017
16
Mahan:
Box
16
Letters to Dr. Charles Samual Mahan
1985-2016
16
Photos of Charles Mahan and McKay
1984-2007
16
Greeting cards
1982-2014
16
Wessells:
Box
16
Correspondence
1985-2000
17
Correspondence
2001-2016
17
Greeting cards and photographs
1986-2010
17
Clipped articles and publications
1993-1997
17
"Psychologists for…" articles and correspondence
1986-2000
17
Video:
Box
17
Birth of Leah Esther Feldman Suetsky to Liz Feldman and Jay Suetsky (restricted, must have permission of Liz Feldman and Jay Suetsky to view) (VHS)
November 21, 1991
17
"America's Defense Monitor" (VHS)
1993
17
802 Hannah Emily Feldman (VHS)
December 26, 1988
Research data:
Box
17
Uganda
2001
17
Mozambique
2001-2002
17
Collaboration with Dyan Mazurana
2000-2003
17
"Girls Grant"
2001-2002
17
PAR research
2006-2009
17
Field notes
2003
17
Sierra Leone map
2003
17
Sierra Leone notes
October 2003
17
Calendar- Sierra Leone
2003
17
Field notes and tape notes
2002
17
Uganda field notes and contact info
2001-2002
17
Singer on child soldiers
2007
17
Unlabeled field notes
undated
18
Freetown notes from memory
undated
Digital ahcdm_400036_048
PAR site reports partial set and spread sheet (CD)
June 23, 2009
Box
18
Slides - Argentina
1985
Digital ahcdm_400036_047
West Africa video and photographs (CD)
January 2008
Box
18
Audio recordings (research):
1990-2002
Box
18
Mambola:
2003
Box
18
Meeting with elders (cassette tape)
October 21, 2003
18
Trad healers/ TBA meeting (cassette tape)
October 21, 2003
18
Kambia team discussion (cassette tape)
October 15, 2003
18
Recording #2, tapes 1-12 (tape #3 is empty) (cassette tape)
October 2003
18
Message from Charlie, partial message from Mike (cassette tape)
December 1990-January 1991
18
Mike Wessells APA pres speech (cassette tape)
August 1992
18
Susie McKay (cassette tape)
Feburary 7, 1990
18
RLS impressions (2 cassette tapes)
July 31, 1986 - January 10, 1991
18
Women's communication tapes:
Box
18
Laura Arthson/ Courtney O'Connor (cassette tape)
May 24, 2002
18
Courtney O'Connor/ CAVE (cassette tape)
May 28, 2002
18
Maude Peacock TRC/ Jeff Kyle CAUSE/ CAVE (cassette tape)
May 29, 2002
18
CAVE/TRC (cassette tape)
May 29, 2002
18
May Williams/ CAUSE- Mabinky Bangura/ UNICEF (cassette tape)
May 30, 2002
18
UNICEF/ CAUSE (cassette tape)
May 31, 2002
18
CCF (cassette tape)
June 3, 2002
18
FAWE/TRC Yasmine (cassette tape)
June 3, 2002
18
Cavitas Makeui/ IRC (cassette tape)
June 4, 2002
18
DDR (cassette tape)
June 6, 2002
18
School for deaf (cassette tape)
undated
18
Makenie/ Girls from school (cassette tape)
undated
18
Cavitas Makenie (2 cassette tapes)
June 6, 2002 - June 7, 2002
18
Binta Masurai (cassette tape)
June 7, 2002
18
FAWE- Christiana Thorpe/ OIC 4 young women (cassette tape)
June 10, 2002
18
4 RUF women finish/ CCF Masiaka Mawoma community (cassette tape)
June 10, 2002
18
Mawoma (cassette tape)
June 11, 2002
18
Mamaliki trad healers (side A empty) (cassette tape)
June 11, 2002
18
Finish CCF world vision (cassette tape)
June 12, 2002
18
World vision BO town girls/ Alfred Kamara (cassette tape)
June 12, 2002
18
World vision IRC- alpha Agnes/ World vision- Rose (cassette tape)
June 13, 2002
18
COOPI/ World vision Rose (cassette tape)
June 14, 2002
18
COOPI/ Chris Robertson (cassette tape)
June 15, 2002
18
Rosaline McCarthy/ Andy Brooks (cassette tape)
June 15, 2002
18
End interview with Andy Brooks (cassette tape)
June 16, 2002
18
UNICEF (Donald and Glenis) (cassette tape)
undated
18 and Digital ahcdm_400036_024-046
Sierra Leone recordings and transcripts (CDs)
2004

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Maternal and infant welfare -- Wyoming -- Park County -- History -- 20th century.
  • Maternal health services -- Wyoming -- Park County -- History -- 20th century.
  • Peace-building -- Women.
  • Rural health services -- Wyoming.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans -- Health and hygiene -- Wyoming -- Park County.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans -- Social conditions -- Wyoming -- Park County.

Corporate Names

  • Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)

Geographical Names

  • Sierra Leone.
  • Wyoming -- History, 1939-1945.
  • Wyoming -- History, 1946-1999.

Other Creators

  • Personal Names
    • Abe, Atsuko, interviewee
    • Emi, Amy, interviewee
    • Emi, Susie, interviewee
    • Endo, Ada, interviewee
    • Hironaka, Katie, interviewee
    • Ikegami, Midori, interviewee
    • Jio, Mary, interviewee
    • Kawakami, Mary, interviewee
    • Kessel, Velma, interviewee
    • Komatsu, Michi , interviewee
    • Kuromiya, Emiko, interviewee
    • Masunaga, Hiroko, interviewee
    • Masunaka, Mitsuko, interviewee
    • McKay, Susan, 1942- : Courage our stories tell
    • Morita, Fumiye, interviewee
    • Pease, Aiko, interviewee
    • Shiba, Rose, interviewee
    • Takagi, Mary, interviewee
    • Toriumi, Sophie, interviewee
    • Uriu, Alice, interviewee
    • Watanabe, Chiye, interviewee
    • Yoritsune, Charlene, interviewee
    • Yoritsune, Shigeko, interviewee