Freeing the Power of the Individual
Department of History

Pamela Tyler

Associate Professor
PhD, Tulane University, 1989

Liberal Arts Building 447
601 266-5398
pamela.tyler@usm.edu

Pamela Tyler came to the University of Southern Mississippi from North Carolina State University in fall 2006. She teaches courses on the history of women in the United States, the American South from 1865 to the present, and mid-20th century U.S. history (1919-1945). Dr. Tyler is the author of Silk Stockings and Ballot Boxes: Women and Politics in New Orleans 1920-1963, which was awarded the L. Kemper Williams Prize for best book in Louisiana history in 1997. She has published articles on Eleanor Roosevelt and the South in Feldman, ed. Before Brown (2004) and Clayton and Salmond, eds., Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph (2003). She recently contributed entries to the Encyclopedia of Women and War and the Blackwell Companion to the American South. Her current research focuses on an evaluation of the responses of women to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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Department of History
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