Texas Women/American Women

Texas Women/American Women

Speakers

		Elizabeth Hayes Turner is associate professor of history at the University of North Texas. She is the author of Women, Culture, and Community: Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920 (1997), which won three scholarly awards, and co-author of Galveston and the 1900 Storm: Catastrophe and Catalyst (2000). Turner is co-editor of five books, including Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas (2007). She received her Ph.D. from Rice University and is past president of the Southern Association for Women Historians.

		Juliana Barr is associate professor of history at the University of Florida. She is the author of Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands, which received five awards, including the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Prize for the Best Book in Women’s History and the Charles S. Sydnor Prize for the Best Book in Southern History for 2007 from the Southern Historical Association. Her current research focuses on gender and Indian enslavement and gender and religion in early America. Barr received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

		Laura Edwards is professor of history at Duke University. She is the author of three books: The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South, and Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era, and Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction. She received awards from the Southern Historical Association and the Agricultural History Society for two of her articles. Edwards is past president of the Southern Association for Women Historians. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

		Marjorie Julian Spruill is professor of history at the University of South Carolina. She is the author of New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States. She has edited or co-edited eight books, including volumes one and two of Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives and three forthcoming volumes of “South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times.” Spruill is past former president of the Southern Association for Women Historians. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.