Participant Info
- First Name
- Ashley
- Last Name
- Steenson
- Country
- United States
- State
- AL Alabama
- alsteenson@crimson.ua.edu
- Affiliation
- The University of Alabama
- Website URL
- https://history.ua.edu/graduate-student/ashley-steenson/
- Keywords
- American History, Southern History, Political History, Intellectual History, Cultural History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I’m a PhD student in twentieth-century American political and intellectual history at The University of Alabama (MA, University of Mississippi, 2020). My academic research considers connections between political thought and culture in the South and the Northeast. As of spring 2023, the title of my project is “Blacklisted Women: Lillian Hellman, Tallulah Bankhead, and Twentieth-Century Politics.”
I’ve written about the history of American politics, ideas, and culture for publications like Atomic Ranch and The Washington Post.
- Recent Publications
Selected Essays
Mt. Nebo Cemetery and Isaac Nettles’s Death Mask Gravestones, Alabama Heritage (Spring 2023)
The Politics of Tallulah Bankhead, Women’s History Network Blog, January 18, 2023
Buddha, Bird City and Jungle Gardens, Deep South Magazine, December 14, 2022
Plastic Paradise: A short history about an unusual home, Atomic Ranch (Design Issue 2022)
Can rappers be jailed for lyrics and image? History shows they can, The Washington Post, July 18, 2022
Water Valley, Mississippi and the Legend of Casey Jones, Deep South Magazine, June 7, 2022
The Delta Mansion That Inspired Tennessee Williams, Deep South Magazine, March 24, 2022
Irene Scruggs and American Expats in Europe, Women’s History Network Blog, January 31, 2022
Out on Good Behaviour, History Today, Vol. 74, No. 11 (Nov. 2021)
Viral sorority TikTok videos share only one side of Southern university life, The Washington Post, August 27, 2021
Frank Lloyd Wright in the Deep South, Deep South Magazine, August 6, 2021
Roosevelt’s Southern Connection, History Today, Vol. 71, No. 3 (March 2021)
- Media Coverage
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
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- Expertise by Topic
- Local & Regional, Politics, Women
