Participant Info
- First Name
- Laura June
- Last Name
- Davis
- Country
- United States
- State
- UT Utah
- laurajunedavis@suu.edu
- Affiliation
- Southern Utah University
- Website URL
- https://sites.google.com/a/suu.edu/laurajunedavis/
- Keywords
- Civil War, military history, gender history, US history, naval history, maritime history, boat burners
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
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- About Me
- Dr. Laura June Davis’s teaching and research focus on American history through the long 19th century, with an emphasis on gender, identity, community, and the military. Her dissertation, which she is currently revising into a manuscript, focuses on sabotage, irregular naval warfare, and masculinity during the Civil War.Dr. Davis joined the SUU faculty in the fall of 2016. In addition to teaching HIST 1700: American Civilizations, she also teaches courses on 19th century American history, American slavery, gender & women’s history, women’s studies, and social studies education.She currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Women and Gender Studies Minor and the Professional Development Chair for the SUUWN.
- Recent Publications
“Irregular Naval Warfare on the Lower Mississippi River” in The Guerrilla Hunters: Exploring the Civil War’s Irregular Conflicts edited by Barton Myers and Brian McKnight
(April 2017, Louisiana State University Press)“Unquestionably There Is an Organized Band of Incendiaries”: Confederate Boat Burners on the Mississippi River, in New Interpretations in Naval History: Selected Papers from the Eighteenth McMullen Naval History Symposium Held at the United States Naval Academy, 19–20 September 2013 (2018, Naval War College Press)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @LauraJuneDavis
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century
- Expertise by Topic
- American Civil War, Gender, Military, Pedagogy
