Meredith Walker is a historian, writer, and media critic with a knack for taking a sledgehammer to the myths we’ve been sold about history, gender, and culture. Armed with a Master’s degree in Global and Colonial History from Leiden University and a Graduate Certificate in Gender, Leadership, and Public Policy from UMass Boston, she has spent her career unpacking the ways media and politics shape how we see ourselves—and how those narratives are used to keep progress in check.

Her background in GOP politics gives her a front-row seat to how nostalgia, particularly for the 1950s, is weaponized to roll back progress on gender equality and civil rights. Combine that with her deep dive into media critical analysis (her Master’s thesis explored sociopolitical critique in the Star Trek franchise), and you’ve got someone uniquely equipped to break down how the idealized “golden age” of the 1950s became the cultural cudgel it is today.

Meredith is the creator of Bitchy History, a platform where she delivers history lessons with wit, irreverence, and a lot of receipts. She has presented at national conferences like the Pop Culture Association, where her talk, “Ozzie, Harriet, June, and Ward: The Impact of 1950s Media on 21st Century Politics,” connected the dots between America’s favorite sitcoms and modern political rhetoric. 

With over 18,000 engaged followers on TikTok (@ProfessorMeredith), Meredith has built a digital platform where she breaks down feminist history, gender politics, and media myths in an accessible and engaging way. Her expertise spans history, media, and policy, bringing an unflinching, sharply critical, and—let’s be real—often snarky perspective to her work. Her ability to weave deep historical analysis with pop culture insights makes her the perfect person to take on the sanitized myths of the 1950s and reveal why understanding the truth matters more than ever.