Department of History
State University of West Georgia
Carrollton, GA 30118
e-mail: ccook@westga.edu
(770)836-4555
EDUCATION
Ph.D, History, University of California, Berkeley, 1992
M.A., American Studies, University of Texas, Austin, 1967
B.A., cum laude, History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 1964
DISSERTATION
Title: "Growing Up White, Genteel, and Female in a Changing South, 1865-1917"
Committee: Leon Litwack (Chair), Mary Ryan, Barbara Christian
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia, 1992-2002, Associate Professor
Teaching Surveys of United States History and upper division and graduate classes in Women in United States History, History of the South, and Georgia History
University of California, Berkeley, 1991, Instructor
City College of San Francisco, 1978-87
Tamalpais High School, Mill Valley, California, 1973-77
Crystal Springs School (high school), Hillsborough, California, 1963-69, 1970-73
PUBLISHED ESSAYS AND ARTICLES
"The Modernized Elitism of Young Southern Ladies at Early Twentieth Century Stanton College," Journal of Mississippi History, Fall 2000
"Genteel Domesticity in the Postbellum South," Proceedings of the Georgia Association of Historians, Vol. XIII, 1993
FORTHCOMING ESSAYS AND ARTICLES
"The Challenges of Daughterhood for Winnie Davis," in Mississippi Women: Portraits of Achievement (tentative title), Elizabeth A. Payne and Martha H. Swain, eds., University of Georgia Press
"The Lost Cause Legend of Winnie Davis, 'The Daughter of the Confederacy,'" in Human Traditions in the American South, edited by James C. Klotter, Scholarly Resources
"Women's Role in the Transformation of Winnie Davis into the Daughter of the Confederacy," in Volume V of a series sponsored by the Southern Association of Woman Historians], edited by Thomas H. Appleton Jr. and Angela Boswell, University of Missouri Press
MANUSCRIPT UNDER REVISION
"Growing Up White, Genteel, and Female in a Changing South: Natchez Young Ladies, 1830-1910," being rewritten for publication with the University of North Carolina Press
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND APPOINTMENTS
Willie D. Halsell Prize for the Best Article in the Journal of Mississippi History, 2000, Mississippi Historical Society
Faculty Research Grants from State University of West Georgia for research trips, 1995 and 2001
Visiting Associate in Women's Studies, Emory University, 1995-1996 (an unpaid position granting faculty privileges)
REVIEWS
Review of in Georgia Historical Quarterly
Review of Henry Hughes in Journal of Mississippi History, 1998
Review of Capital Elites by Kathryn Allamong Jacob, in The Journal of Southern History, Vol. LXII, No. 2, May 1996
Review of An Evening When Alone, edited by Michael O'Brien, in The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. LXXIX, No. 3, Fall 1995
"Genteel Domesticity in the Postbellum South," Proceedings of the Georgia Association ofHistorians, Vol. XIII, 1993
Review of Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South by Sally McMillen for The Journal of Mississippi History, May 1993
Four entries for The American National Biography, edited by John A. Garraty for The American Council for Learned Societies and Oxford University Press