Catherine Oglesby
Valdosta, Georgia 31698
Phone: 229-333-5947
e-mail:
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1996
Areas of Specialization
Dissertation
M.A. 1987
Area of Specialization
Thesis
B.A. 1985
Major/Minor
Senior Thesis
HONORS & AWARDS
Awards
Fellowships
Honor Societies
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
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OTHER PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
PUBLICATIONS
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PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS / Michigan State University
Modern U.S. History; U.S. Women’s History; Modern Europe; American Literature
“Gender Identity and Social Consciousness in the works of Corra White Harris,” directed by Norman Pollack
Auburn University
Colonial America
“The Role of the Southern Clergy in the American Revolution,” directed by Robin F.A. Fabel
Tift College
History/Sociology
“The Great Awakening in Georgia: Theological Debate between George Whitefield and John Wesley”
2004 E. Merton Coulter Award for best paper published in the Georgia Historical Quarterly in 2003
Fred Williams Graduate Teaching Award, Michigan State University, 1996
Colonial Dames Award, Auburn University, 1987
Ruth Scarborough Award for Senior Thesis, Tift College, 1985
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University, 1996
Dissertation Research Fellowship, College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University, 1994
Robert Reid Fellowship, Auburn University History Department, 1985
Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Alpha Theta; Alpha Chi; Phi Theta Kappa
Valdosta State University 1997-present
--HIST 4261 Women in the U.S. to 1869
--HIST 4262 Women in the U.S. 1869-Present
--HIST 4270 Women in the U.S. South
--HIST 4280 U.S. Women Activists & Reformers
--HIST 4222 History of New South
--HIST3030 History of Wealth & Poverty in the U.S.
--WMST 3000 Introduction to Women’s Studies
--WMST 4400 Women’s Studies Capstone
--HIST 7000 Historiography & Methodology
--HIST 2111 Survey of U.S. History to 1865
--HIST 2112 Survey of U.S. History 1865 to Present
Michigan State University, 1991-96
--U.S. Women's History to 1869
--U.S. History 1920-present
--Evolution of American Thought
Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina 1990-91
--Western Civilization Survey courses
--U.S. Women's History: Survey of U.S. history from Colonial Era
to present viewed from women's perspective.
LaGrange College, LaGrange, Georgia 1989-90
--U.S. History surveys: U.S. History to 1877 and U.S. History 1877 to Present.
--U.S. Constitutional History
--U.S. Foreign Policy
-Appointed by the Governor to Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board, 2001-present
-Executive Board, Georgia Association of Historians, 2007-2010
-Member of Editorial Board of The Journal of Southwest Georgia History, 1998-2000
-Assistant Book Review Editor, H-Net Book Review Project, Michigan State University, Summer, 1996
-Project Assistant for Service-Learning Writing Project, American Thought and Language Department, Michigan State University, 1994.
-Coordinator of Grants & Contracts, College of Liberal Arts, Auburn University, 1987-88.
-Honor's College Advisor, College of Liberal Arts, Auburn University, 1986-87.
-“Revisioning Women’s History Through Service Learning,” Teaching American History: Essays Adapted from the Journal of American History, 2001-2007, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2009. (This article was originally published by JAH March, 2002, and was selected to be included in an anthology of articles published in the “Textbook and Teaching” section of JAH from 2001-2007.)
- Corra Harris and the Divided Mind of the New South, 2008, University Press of Florida
-“Rebecca Harding Davis,” Encyclopedia of Women in the American Civil War, Santa Barbara, California: ABC Clio, 2006.
-“The ‘Seemingly Contradictory’ Life and Legacy of Georgia Novelist Corra White Harris,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, Summer 2003.
- “Harris, Corra (1869-1935)”, New Georgia Encyclopedia, Electronic and Print Form, University of Georgia Press, October 2003.
-“Re-Visioning Women’s History Through Service Learning,” The Journal of American History, March, 2002, Vol. 88 #4
- “Reluctant Suffragist/Unwitting Feminist: The Ambivalent Political Voice of Georgia Novelist Corra White Harris,” Southeastern Political Review, Vol. 28, No. 3 (September 2000).
-”Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), First Woman Physician in U.S. to Earn Medical Degree,” Encyclopedia of the American Civil War, Santa Barbara, California: ABC Clio, 2000.
-“‘Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman’: Georgia Novelist Corra White Harris on Woman’s Nature, or a Reflection on the Ideological Roots of Anti-feminism,” 1 Contiguities,Vol. 1, # 1 &2 (1998).
-“Canon Busting: The Basic Issues, An Interview with Stanley Fish,” National Forum: The Phi Kappa Phi Journal, Summer 1989 (interview conducted with Stephen W. White):13-15.
Book Reviews:
-Review of Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges: Feminist Values
and Social Activism, 1875-1915 by Joan Marie Johnson, GHQ,
forthcoming.
-Review of Someone Had to be Hated: A Biography of Julian LaRose Harris, by Gregory C. Lisby and William F. Mugleston, Journal of Southern History, February 2004
-Review of Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question by Elna C. Green in The Journal of Southwest Georgia History Vol. XII, Fall 1997.
-“Reflections on Corra Harris and the Divided Mind of the New South”
invited lecture given at the Georgia Center for the Book, Nov. 16, 2008,
Decatur, GA
-“Corra Harris, the Lost Cause, and Race Relations,” presented at annual
Georgia Association of Historians, April 6-7, 2007, Georgia Southern
College, Milledgeville, GA
-“Putting Learning to Work,” Georgia Council of Media Organizations, Oct.
12-14, 2005, Columbus, GA
-“The Politics of Widowhood in the works of Georgia Novelist, Corra Harris,” Western Association of Women’s Historians Annual Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 21-23, 2004.
-“Identity Politics: The Evolution of Identity Awareness through Historical Research,” presented at 2001 Annual Meeting of the Georgia Association of Historians, April 13-14, 2001, Augusta, Georgia.
-“Living to Write/Writing to Live: The Role of Writing in the Shaping of Corra White Harris,” presented at the First Annual Georgia Consortium on Research in Georgia History, Feb. 9-10, 2001, Savannah, Georgia.
-“Revisiting the Legacy of Corra White Harris: Religion, Church and The Circuit Rider’s Wife”, Center for Regional History & Culture of Bartow County, Cartersville, Georgia, April 2, 2000.
-“Lost Cause Mythology and the Decentered White Man: Reflections on United Daughters of Confederacy, and Georgia Authors, Margaret Mitchell, Lillian Smith, & Frances Newman,” Paper presented at the Georgia Association of Historians, Savannah, Georgia, April 16-17, 1999.
-“‘Creating Ourselves in the Image of Our Own Minds’:The Influence of Paul Elmer More on the Moral Development of Corra White Harris,” Paper presented at the Georgia Women of Achievement Conference, Rome, Georgia, March 25-27, 1999.
-“The Role of Service Learning in Expanding Definitions of Morality,” Paper presented at Fourth Annual VSU Women’s Studies Conference, March 4-6, 1999.
-“Clio in the Vineyard: Balancing Tradition and Innovation in the College History Classroom,” paper presented at the Association for Moral Education Conference, Dartmouth University, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 18-22, 1998.
-“Reflections on ‘Negotiating the Deviant: Using Poverty to Define American Status,’” Paper presented at the American Historical Association/Pacific Coast Branch Conference, San Diego, California, August 6-9, 1998.
-“‘Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman’: Georgia Novelist Corra White Harris on Woman’s Nature, or a Reflection on the Ideological Roots of Anti-feminism,” paper delivered at the Second Annual Women’s Studies Conference, Valdosta State University, February 28-March 1, 1997.
-“The Value of Research for the Undergraduate in the Humanities: Research as Autobiography,” Address to the Arts & Sciences Council on Undergraduate Research at the third annual Symposium on Undergraduate Research, May 8, 1997.
-“The Role of the Feminist Movement in Raising Awareness of Domestic Violence in the Twentieth Century,” Paper presented at the 1997 Annual Conference on Family Violence, Georgia Coalition, June 19-20, 1997.
-“Connecting Students and Community,” TeacherNet: Connections Across Time and Space. Annual Spring Conference on the English Language Arts, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, April 9, 1994.
-“Active Learning and General Education Courses,” Excellence in Learning: Innovation in the Learning Process, Kellogg Center, Michigan State University, June 1, 1994, Sponsored by The Career Development Model Grant.
-“Perry Miller and the Mind of America,” Phi Alpha Theta Colloquium, Auburn University, 1988.
-“Fighting the Good Fight: The Southern Clergy and the Princeton Connection in the American Revolution,” History Department Forum, Auburn University, 1987.
American Association of University Women
Southern Association of Women Historians
Western Association of Women Historians
Michigan Women’s Studies Association
Georgia Association of Historians
Southern Historical Association
Society of Georgia Archivists
Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom