Participant Info
- First Name
- Jillian
- Last Name
- McClure
- Country
- United States
- State
- FL
- jillian.mcclure@unf.edu
- Affiliation
- University of North Florida
- Website URL
- https://webapps.unf.edu/faculty/bio/N01541755
- Keywords
- 20th Century U.S. History, African American History, Chicano/a History, History Of Higher Education, Oral History, Political and Social History, Women's History
- Availability
- 1
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Jillian E. McClure is an instructional assistant professor at the University of North Florida. Her book project, Opening the American University: Campus Activism and Politics in Public Higher Education, examines how student and faculty activists mobilized to reform public, flagship universities after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. African Americans, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and women worked within institutional structures in attempts to gain power and self-determination within the university system. Her project demonstrates that activists achieved some successes, but they also provoked a conservative backlash against higher education that shaped politics and public policy. She is currently developing a collaborative oral history project titled First Coast Foodways that examines understudied regional culinary practices and histories in Northeast Florida. She holds a Ph.D. in History and an M.A. in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @jillianmcclure.bsky.social
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Higher Ed, Local & Regional, Politics, Race, Women
