Participant Info
- First Name
- Deborah
- Last Name
- Blackwell
- Country
- United States
- State
- TX Texas
- dblackwell@tamiu.edu
- Affiliation
- Texas A&M International University
- Website URL
- Keywords
- U.S. women, Southern history, Progressive Era reform, Appalachia (Central/Southern)
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Deborah L. Blackwell is Associate Professor of History and Director of the University Honors Program at Texas A&M International University in Laredo. She received her BA in History and Government from the College of William & Mary; her MA in History from North Carolina State University; and her PhD from the University of Kentucky. At TAMIU she teaches a wide variety of courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, including U.S. survey, U.S. women’s history, the U.S. South, the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, historiography, historical methods, and a freshman interdisciplinary seminar course on gender and the media. As University Honors Program Director, she oversees a program of approximately 170-180 students. Her most recent publication is an article entitled “Female Stereotypes and the Creation of Appalachia, 1870-1940,” in Women of the Mountain South: Identity, Work, and Activism, eds. Rice and Tedesco (2015), and she is currently working on two book-length manuscripts, a discussion of Progressive-era benevolence efforts in central Appalachia headed by women who attempted to reshape the region’s gender dynamics as they addressed poverty and lack of education; and, with Jerry D. Thompson, an institutional history of her employer for its 50th anniversary celebration in 2020.
- Recent Publications
Article, “Female Stereotypes and the Creation of Appalachia, 1870-1940,” in Women of the Mountain South: Identity, Work, and Activism, eds. Connie Park Rice and Marie Tedesco (Ohio University Press, 2015): 74-94.
Article, “The Maternalist Politics of Road Construction at Pine Mountain Settlement School, 1900-1935,” Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review 37 (Spring/Summer 2010): 226-241.
Article, “A Murder in the Kentucky Mountains: Pine Mountain Settlement School and Community Relations in the 1920s,” in Thomas H. Appleton, Jr. and Angela Boswell, eds., Searching For Their Places: Women in the South Across Four Decades (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2003), 196-217.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- U.S. South and Appalachia
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Women
