Freedwomen and the Freedmen’s Bureau
November 10, 2012
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13020036-freedwomen-and-the-freedmen-s-bureau Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau: Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of…
Mary Farmer-Kaiser
Mary Farmer-Kaiser, Associate Professor of History and Director the Guilbeau Charitable Trust (Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, 2000). Farmer-Kaiser's research and teaching focus on U.S. constitutional and legal history, U.S. women's history, and African American history in the Age of Emancipation. Farmer-Kaiser was named the James D. Wilson/Board of Regents Support Fund Memorial Professor in Southern Studies in 2006. She is the author of Freedwomen and the Freedmen’s Bureau: Race, Gender and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation (Fordham University Press, 2010) and co-editor, with Shannon Frystak, of volume two of Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times (University of Georgia Press, forthcoming). Her other publications focus on southern women in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction and have appeared in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the Georgia Historical Quarterly, volume one of Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times (University of Georgia Press, 2009), The Unintended Consequences of Constitutional Amendments (University of Georgia Press, 2000), and The Freedmen’s Bureau and Reconstruction: Interpretive Essays (Fordham University Press, 1999). In 2009, Farmer-Kaiser was honored to receive the Ray P. Authement Teaching Excellence Award, an annual university-wide prize that recognizes the achievements of outstanding educators at UL. She is also the recipient of the 2007 Phi Alpha Theta Faculty Advisor Research Award, a Mellon Research Fellowship from the Virginia Historical Society, and several teaching and research awards from Bowling Green State University. In addition to serving as the graduate coordinator for the MA degree program in History at UL, Farmer-Kaiser is proud to be an active partner in the Teaching American History grant program. She has worked with the Lafayette Parish School System on two of these multi-year, teacher-focused, history-content-driven U.S. Department of Education grants and has been an invited speaker for several Smithsonian-partnered TAH grants in addition to TAH grants in Louisiana.
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