LeeAnn Whites

Professor
PhD, University of California, Irvine
MA, University of California, Irvine
areas: Civil War and reconstruction, women, 19th-century South
office: 202 Read Hall
phone: 573-882-9469
email: whitesl@missouri.edu

Research Interests

Professor Whites came to the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1989 to fill the position in U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction. Prior to that time she held a position in the history of the nineteenth century South and U.S. Women at Virginia Tech. Since being at Missouri, Professor Whites has taught classes in the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, Missouri in the Civil War, Race, Class and Gender, Women in Missouri History, Women in the Nineteenth Century South, and the history of gender and sexuality in the United States. Professor Whites has also published widely since being in Missouri in the areas of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction and the nineteenth century South.

Professor Whites specializes in the areas of gender and sexuality studies. Her current research projects include coediting an anthology with Alecia Long, entitled, Occupied Women: Protection, Violation and the Sexual Politics of the Union Military and a book project, Civil War Women, which considers the experience of women in the Civil War through the lens of their correspondence with their men in the field. She is an affiliate faculty member of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at MU.

Selected Publications

Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction and the Making of the New South (New York, Palgrave MacMillan Press, March, 2005).

Women in Missouri History: In Search of Power and Influence, LeeAnn Whites, Mary Neth and Gary Kremer, Eds., (Columbia, Missouri, University of Missouri Press, 2004).

'You Can't Change History By Moving a Rock:' The Race and Gender Politics of Confederate Memorialization in The Civil War in Popular Culture, Alice Fahs and Joan Wahs, Eds., (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2004).

The Civil War As a Crisis in Gender: Augusta, Georgia, 1860-1890, (Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia Press, 1995, 2000).

Teaching

U.S. Survey to 1865
Divided Houses: Politics and Culture in the Civil War Era
Sex Radicals in U.S. History
The Civil War in Missouri
Race, Class and Gender in U.S. History
Sectional Crisis, Civil War and Reconstruction (readings and research seminars)

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Professor Whites

Gender Matters: Civil War, Reconstruction and the Making of the New South

Women in Missouri History jacket
Women in Missouri History

Civil War jacket
The Civil War As a Crisis in Gender