Dr. Laura Mammina

Assistant Professor

Bio

Dr. Laura Mammina studies the nineteenth-century United States, examining gender history, African American History, the history of slavery and emancipation, and civilian-military relations during the Civil War and Reconstruction. She is an assistant professor of History in the School of Humanities, a Fellow of the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Black Studies and the Evelyn Gandy Center for Women and Leadership. Prior to her position at the University of Southern Mississippi, she held an academic appointment at the University of Houston-Victoria. Her current book manuscript, Hard Women, Hard War: How Southern Women Shaped U.S. Policy during the Civil War, is forthcoming in Fall 2026 from the University of Georgia Press.

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