Dr. Rebecca Tuuri
Associate Professor
Bio
Dr. Rebecca Tuuri is the Associate Dean of the Honors College, Co-director of the Drapeau Center for Undergraduate Research, and an Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi. Over the past thirteen years, she has worked on various public-facing history projects through service within Southern Miss's Center for the Study of the Gulf South, the Mississippi Historical Society, the Mississippi Humanities Council, the Gulf South Historical Association, and the Mississippi Encyclopedia (online). She is the author of Strategic Sisterhood: The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle (UNC Press, 2018), which won the 2019 prize for best book in southern women's history from the Southern Association of Women Historians. She is also a co-author (along with Dr. Sherita Johnson, Dr. Cheryl Jenkins, and Dr. Loren Saxton Coleman) of Mixing: Race, Higher Education, and the Case of Clyde Kennard (UPM, 2026).
- PHD - Rutgers University-New Brunswick (2012)
- BA - Rice University (2002)
- BA - Rice University (2002)
HON 111/112: Honors Colloquium
HON 300/301: Honors Thesis Preparation I and II
HIS 773: Special Topics: History of Race and Gender in America
HIS 478: Special Topics: History of the Civil Rights Movement
HIS 477/WGS 410: History of Women in America
HIS 373/HIS 374: African American History to and from 1890
HIS 202: U.S History from 1865 to the present
HIS 101: World Civilizations to 1500
- Strategic Sisterhood: The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle, 2018
- "Poultry and Pedagogy in Mississippi and Mexico: Bridging African American and Latin American History in a College Classroom" , The History Teacher, 2018
- "'This was the most meaningful thing that I've ever done': The Personal Civil Rights Approach of Wednesdays in Mississippi", Journal of Women's History , 2016
- "'By Any Means Necessary': The Flexible Loyalties of the National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle" , U.S. Women’s History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood, 2017
- “MAKING SURE HIS LEGACY DID NOT DIE WITH HIM”:, Mixing, 2026, 10.2307/jj.33535065.8
- “A LITTLE MAN WHO HAS DONE A LOT OF BIG THINGS”:, Mixing, 2026, 10.2307/jj.33535065.5