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Kathleen Clark

19th and 20th century U.S. South; Women and Gender; African American

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Yale

Office: 301 LeConte
Office Hours: TH- 1:30-3:30pm & by appt Tu, Th -9:30-10
Phone: (706) 542-6394

katclark@uga.edu

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Kathleen Clark is the author of Defining Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the American South and has published articles on Emancipation Day and July 4th celebrations. Her current research focuses on early 20th century southern women writers and gender and political culture in the early twentieth-century South.

Research and Teaching Interests

[African American]
[Gender & Sexuality]
[U.S. 19th & 20th Century]
[U.S. South]
[Women's History]

Selected Publications

Defining Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the American South, 1863-1913 (University of North Carolina Press, 2006) More Info

Courses Taught

HIST2112: U.S. History 1865 to Present

HIST2112H: U.S. History 1865 to Present, Honors [Syllabus]

HIST3085: United States Women's History to 1865 [Syllabus]

HIST3086: United States Women's History 1865-Present [Syllabus]

HIST4000: Studies in American History [Syllabus]

HIST4000: Studies in American History [Syllabus]

HIST4040: Working Class America [Syllabus]

HIST4080: Politics of Gender in United States History [Syllabus]

HIST4115: Reacting to the Past in American History [Syllabus]

HIST4990: Senior Seminar [Syllabus]

HIST8020: Seminar in Middle Period United States History [Syllabus]

HIST8710: Colloquium on Gender in History [Syllabus]

HIST8710: Colloquium on Gender in History [Syllabus]

HIST8860: Seminar in History [Syllabus]

Dissertations Supervised

Miller, Leslie, "The Power of the Privileged: The Model of the White Middle Class Family and the Education of American Children, 1820-1920" (In Progress)

Hayes, John, "Hard, Hard Religion: Faith and Class in the New South" (2007)

MA Theses Supervised

Brearley, Margaret, "Politics of Persuasion: The Language and Limits of the Long Career of Rebecca Latimer Felton" (2010)

Summerlin, Elizabeth, ""Not Ratified but Hereby Rejected:" The Women's Suffrage Movement in Georgia, 1895-1925" (2009)