Scholar - Women Also Know History

Participant Info

Keywords: American History, Southern History, Political History, Intellectual History, Cultural History

About Me: I’m a PhD student in twentieth-century American political history at the University of Alabama. I received an MA in history from the University of Mississippi in 2020, along with a graduate minor from the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies. 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 TIME and the Washington Post.

Recent Publications: To Understand Trump’s Appeal, Look to Alabama History, TIME, January 25, 2024

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

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

Joe Manchin might be principled. Or he might scorn his own constituents, The Washington Post, January 27, 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)