Dr. Rebecca Tuuri
Associate Professor
Bio
Dr. Rebecca Tuuri is interim Associate Dean of the Honors College, an associate professor of history, co-director for the Center for the Study of the Gulf South, and a faculty affiliate of the Center for Black Studies and Center for Women’s and Gender Studies with expertise in women in the Civil Rights Movement. 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 the winner of the 2023 Mississippi Humanities Council Humanities Scholar Award, the 2019 USM College of Arts and Sciences Junior Faculty of the Year Award, and a 2016 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend. In addition to teaching courses in History, she has taught Honors Colloquium, mentored undergraduate Honors theses, and served on the steering committee for the Drapeau Center for Undergraduate Research.
- PHD - Rutgers University-New Brunswick (2012)
- BA - Rice University (2002)
- BA - Rice University (2002)
HON 111/112: Honors Colloquium
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