Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times

Contributors

399 Contributors sarah case is Assistant Professor of History at Salisbury University in Maryland. Her work has been published in the Journal of Southern History. Currently, she is completing a manuscript on southern women and educational reform in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Georgia. ann short chirhart is Associate Professor of History at Indiana State University in Terre Haute. She is the author of Torches of Light: Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern South (2005) and articles that have appeared in the Georgia Historical Quarterly, Journal of Family History, and The New Deal and Beyond: Social Welfare in the South since 1930 (2002). She is the coeditor of Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, vol. 2 (forthcoming), and is also working on a manuscript about African American activism in the urban South before 1954. catherine clinton is Professor of United States History at Queen’s University Belfast. She is the author of numerous publications, including The Plantation Mistress: Woman’s World in the Old South (1982), and the editor of, among others, Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War (2006) and Susie King Taylor’s Reminiscences of My Life in Camp: an African-American Woman’s Civil War Memoir (2006). stacey horstmann gatti is Assistant Professor of History at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York. Her current research projects focus on the political activities of women’s organizations in Georgia and New York during the Progressive era and the 1920s. michele gillespie is Kahle Associate Professor of History at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is the author of Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia (2000) and coeditor of numerous books, most recently Thomas Dixon Jr. and the Birth of Modern America (2006). daniel kilbride is Associate Professor of History at John Carroll University in UniversityHeights ,Ohio.HeistheauthorofAnAmericanAristocracy:SouthernPlantersinAntebellum Philadelphia, from the University of South Carolina Press (2006). He is writing a book on European travel among Americans from colonial times through the 1870s. 400 Contributors kent anderson leslie is an independent scholar living in Georgia. She is the author of Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849–1893 (1995). She is working on a manuscript on Lucy Craft Laney. ben marsh is a lecturer of history at the University of Stirling in Scotland. His most recent publication is Georgia’s Frontier Women: Female Fortunes in a Southern Colony (2007). He has published numerous articles in historical journals such as the Georgia Historical Quarterly. His recent scholarship focuses on family relationships on southern plantations and the colonial silk industry. donald mathews is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His numerous publications include Sex, Gender, and the Politics of era: A State and a Nation (1990), Religion in the Old South (1977), and Slavery and Methodism: A Chapter in American Morality 1780–1845 (1965). His articles have been published in numerous journals, including the Journal of Southern History. barbara mccaskill is Associate Professor and General Sandy Beaver Teaching Professor at the University of Georgia. She has recently coedited Post-Bellum—Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture, 1877–1919 (2006) and authored Running 1,000 Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (1999). Her essays appear in journals such as African American Review and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. christopher j. olsen is Chair and Associate Professor of History at Indiana State University in Terre Haute. He is the author of Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi (2000) and The American Civil War (2006), and is currently working on a study of political culture in antebellum America. john thomas scott is Professor of History at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He has recently published scholarly articles in The Georgia Historical Quarterly and Fides et Historia and has made presentations to the Society for the History of the Early American Republic and the Southern Historical Association. His current research centers on religion in Trustee-era Georgia. carey olmstead shellman is an Instructor of History at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, Georgia. She completed her PhD at the University of Florida. Her dissertation, “Nellie Peters Black and the Practical Application of the Social Gospel in the New South, 1890–1919,” focuses on the role of organized women in the promotion of the social gospel in the South through progressive reform. anastatia hodgens sims is a Professor of History at Georgia...