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Gender and Women's HistoryGender and Women's History at the University of Missouri-Columbia is home to a number of distinguished scholars working in gender and women's history. The department offers the opportunity to pursue graduate studies in gender and women's history with noted faculty in American and European history. In addition to courses on the social history of women in America and Europe, the history department offers graduate classes on the history of the family, and on race, class and gender. These courses provide graduate students with a thorough understanding of the methodological, historiographical and theoretical questions shaping the field today. The department's award-winning scholars offer all graduate students expertise in American and European social history, African-American history, and U. S. diplomatic, economic and immigration history. The department is affiliated with the Women's and Gender Studies and the Black Studies programs, and encourages students to take advantage of the minor in Women Studies. FacultyMark Carroll (PhD, University of Houston) specialized in antebellum Southern history. He teaches courses on family, law, class, race and gender in the Old South. He has recently completed his first book Homesteads Ungovernable: Families, Sex and Law in Frontier Texas. His current project explores ethnicity and gender in antebellum Arkansas. Lois L. Huneycutt (PhD, University of California-Santa Barbara) specializes in medieval Europe. Her research and teaching focuses on women, the family and politics in the middle ages. Her publications include articles on medieval queens, and she is currently working on a biography of England's Queen Matilda II. Wilma King (PhD, Indiana University) specializes in African-American history with an emphasis on black women's history. She has edited and written several books, including A Northern Woman in the Plantation South (ed.) and the award-winning Stolen Childhood: Youth in Bondage in Nineteenth Century America. Ilyana Karthas (PhD, Brown University) specializes in modern European history with a particular interest in the cultural politics of ballet in France. Dr. Karthas teaches courses in French history and European intellectual and cultural history. Theodore Koditschek (PhD, Princeton University) specializes in the social history of Great Britain. He offers courses on race/class and gender. In addition to his award-winning book, Class Formation and Urban Industrial Society: Bradford 1750-1850, he has recently published an article in Gender and History titled The Gendering of the British Working Class. Michelle Morris (PhD, Harvard University) specializes is early U.S. women’s history. Her dissertation, "Under Household Government: Family and Sex in Massachusetts, 1660-1700, is a community study that challenges conventional understandings of how Puritan social control worked. Dr. Morris teaches courses in US women’s history and early American history. Linda Reeder (PhD, Rutgers University-New Brunswick) teaches modern European women's history. Her work focuses on Italian women and explores the relationship between gender and migration in early twentieth-century Italy. Recent articles include Women in the Classroom: Mass Migration, Literacy, and the Nationalization of Sicilian Women at the Turn of the Century, in the Journal of Social History. Catherine Rymph (PhD,University of Iowa) specializes in twentieth century US history; women and politics; women and democratization; and gender and public policy. She is the author of Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage through the Rise of the New Right (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). One of her new projects, addressing gender and nation building after World War II, was a recipient of the 2004 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics. LeeAnn Whites (PhD, University of California-Irvine) specializes in the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction and the nineteenth-century South. She offers graduate courses in race and gender. In addition to many articles, she has published a book entitled The Civil War as a Crisis in Gender: Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890. Her current work looks at gender and the memorialization of the CivilWar.
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