| BRIEF VITA
Education:
B.A., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 1988; M.A., Ohio
University, 1991; Ph.D., University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2001.
Awards and Honors:
The Julia Cherry Spruill Publication Prize, 2005, presented by the Southern
Association of Women Historians for The Great Southern Babylon: Sex,
Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920
Wilbur Owen Sypherd Prize for the outstanding doctoral dissertation in the
Humanities, University of Delaware, 2001Notable Articles:
“(Mis)Remembering General Order No. 28: Benjamin, Butler, the Woman
Order, and Historical Memory,” in Occupied Women: Gender, Military
Occupation in the American Civil War, 2009
"Poverty
is the New Prostitution: Race, Poverty, and Public Housing in Post-Katrina
New Orleans," The Journal of American History, December, 2007
"
'A Notorious Attraction': Sex and Tourism in New Orleans, 1897-1917," in
Southern Journeys: Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South,
University of Alabama Press, 2003 |
