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Blain Roberts, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Office: Social Sciences 118   Email: broberts@csufresno.edu   Office phone: 278-8677   Education: PhD – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill MA – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill M. Litt. – University of St. Andrews BA – Princeton University Research/Teaching Interests:  20th Century U.S.; U.S. Women’s History; U.S. Cultural History; the American South; Memory

Select Publications: 

Pretty Women: Female Beauty in the Jim Crow and Civil Rights South.  Manuscript under revision for publication.

“‘Is It Okay to Talk about Slaves?’: Segregating the Past in Historic Charleston,” in Karen L. Cox, ed., Dixie Passages: Tourism and Southern History (University Press of Florida, forthcoming 2011) [co-authored with Ethan J. Kytle].

“A New Cure for Brightleaf Tobacco: The Origins of the Tobacco Queen during the Great Depression, Southern Cultures (12:2, Summer 2006).

Courses Offered: 
 

Undergraduate

U.S History, 1877 to the Present

U.S. Women’s History

U.S. Cultural History, 1877 to the Present

History and Women’s Autobiography

Advanced Historical Research and Writing

Post-baccalaureate

Introduction to Graduate Writing and Historiography

The Civil Rights Movement