Katherine Rohrer, Ph.D.
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Area(s) of Expertise: 19th and 20th c. U.S. South, Race Relations, Women's History, Religion, Higher Education History
Overview
Courses Taught
- HIST 2111 - U.S. History I
- HIST 2112 - U.S. History II
- HIST 3184 - New South
- HIST 3185 - Georgia History
- HIST 7003 - Colloquium in American History
- HIST 3183 Old South
- HIST 7300 Master's Thesis
Education
- Ph.D., American History, University of Georgia, 2015
- M.A., History, University of Georgia, 2007
- A.B. (Magna cum laude), History & Political Science, University of Georgia, 2004
Publications
"Leaving Their Mark: Female Students, Faculty, and Leadership Organizations at the University of North Georgia, 1873-Present with Katherine Rose Adams in The University of North Georgia: Essays on the Past, Present, and Future (Dahlonega, GA: University of North Georgia Press, 2023): 23-36.
"Martha Wiliford Payne's (Re)constructions of Race, Gender, and Southern Identity in Missionary Liberia, 1850-1870," Journal of the Georgia Association of Historians, vol. 37(2021): 41-84.
"The Lucy Cobb Institute: Mildred Lewis Rutherford and her Mission to Preserve an Idealized Southern Community" in Steven E. Nash and Bruce E. Stewart, eds., Southern Communities: Identity, Conflict, and Memory in the American South (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2019): 230-245.
"Lifting the Veil of Obscurity?: Lucy Webb Hayes, America's First 'First Lady'" in Edward O. Frantz., ed., A Companion to the Reconstruction Presidents, 1865-81 (Malden, Mass: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014): 475-496.
"," Journal of Southern Religion, vol. 15 (2013):
Over three dozen book reviews published in Journal of Southern History, Journal of the Civil War Era, Civil War History, Journal of Southern Religion, Journal of African American History, History of Education Quarterly, Appalachian Journal, Southern Studies, Georgia Historical Quarterly, North Carolina Historical Review, Maryland Historical Review, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, ArkansasHistorical Quarterly, Journal of Mississippi History, Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, New Mexico Historical Review, and West Virginia History.