Robin Morris
My dissertation examines women’s work in the creation of the New Right in America from 1960-1985. Focusing on Georgia, I examine the role of women in political realignment and Republican Party building in the 1960s through the creation of a gendered language of the New Right in anti-abortion and Stop ERA work in the 1970s. Glenda Gilmore, Joanne Meyerowitz, and Beverly Gage comprise my dissertation committee. I have presented on my research at the Southern Association of Women’s Historians, the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Meeting, the Southern History Association, and the Schlesinger Library Summer Conference on Women and Gender Studies at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
In 2007, I completed my oral exams in the fields of 20th Century Cultural and Political U.S. History with Glenda Gilmore; 19th Century Cultural and Political U.S. History with David Blight; and Transnational Women’s Movements with Joanne Meyerowitz.
At Yale, I have served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow, facilitating workshops for teaching fellows from various disciplines. I have been a Teaching Fellow for U.S. History 1900-1945, Civil War and Reconstruction, and Terrorism in the United States 1865-2001. I participate in the Women, Gender, and Sexualities Reading Group and Y’all University, the Southern History Reading Group.
I took the long path from undergrad to Yale. After graduating from Queens University of Charlotte, NC, I joined Teach For America. Weekdays, I was a middle school social studies teacher in Tunica, Mississippi. Weekends, I sought out the best juke joints and fried catfish. I received my M.A. in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi in 2001. For nearly four years, I was Educator for Youth and School Programs at the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, NC. There, I was Lead Educator on the COURAGE exhibit about the Carolina roots of the Brown v. Board Supreme Court case. The exhibit won awards of excellence from the American Association of Museums, the Institute for Museum and Library Science, and the Southeastern Museums Council.
