Participant Info
- First Name
- Meredith
- Last Name
- May
- Country
- (Country)
- State
- TX Texas
- mmay@kilgore.edu
- Affiliation
- Kilgore College
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Women’s history, East Texas, Business Ownership, entrepreneurship, Houston
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I’m an instructor of history at Kilgore College, and I have focused my scholarly work on the intersection between gender, race, class, and entrepreneurship. Specifically, I study how these themes collide in the Sunbelt after World War II. My manuscript explores the topic of women who owned small businesses in Houston from 1945-1977 and the way women used entrepreneurship in a gendered manner.
My master’s thesis explored gender, race, and labor in company-owned towns in East Texas, and my second research project will hopefully expand upon that work in some way.
Additionally, I was one of the research assistants for the Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project (crbb.tcu.edu). We spread out across Texas interviewing people about their experience with both the African American Civil Rights movement and the Chicano Movement.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Capitalism, Gender, Race, Sexuality, Women
