University of California, Los Angeles
United States History, Ph.D., 1997
Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges: Feminist Values and Social Activism, 1875-1915 (University of Georgia Press, 2008).
Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region and Clubwomen in South Carolina, 1890-1930 (University Press of Florida, 2004).
Co-editor, South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume III (University of Georgia Press, 2012).
Co-editor, South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume II (University of Georgia Press, 2010).
Co-editor, South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume I (University of Georgia Press, 2009).
Editor, Southern Women at Vassar: the Poppenheim Family Letters, 1882-1916 (University of South Carolina Press, 2002)
Co-founder and Co-director, Newberry Seminar on Women and Gender
Awards and Honors:
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2013
University Instructor Excellence Award, Northeastern Illinois University, 2009 and 2012
Foundation for Women in Medicine Fellowship at the Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard University, Boston, MA, 2010-2011
Spencer Foundation Small Research Grant, for “Southern Ladies, New Women: Southern Women at Northern Colleges, 1865-1920”, 2001-2002
A. Elizabeth Taylor Article Prize, for best article in Southern women’s history, Southern Association for Women Historians, 2001
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