Dee Gillespie, Ph.D.
Area(s) of Expertise: U.S. history , southern history, women's history, African-American history
Overview
Dr. Gillespie specializes in US social history, concentrating on the South in the 20th century.
Courses Taught
- HIST 2111: US History to 1877
- HIST 2112: US History from 1877
- HIST 2000: Historiography
- HIST 3102: The Civil Rights Era, 1877-1970
- HIST 3155: US Women’s History
- HIST 3140: 1960s America
- HIST 4150: US Social & Cultural History - US Immigration History
- HIST 4150: US Social & Cultural History - Southern Women's History
- HIST 7003: Colloquium in US History
Education
- B.A., Psychology, Mount Holyoke College, 1990
- M.S.W., Social Work - Children and Youth, University of Georgia, 1997
- Ph.D., History, SUNY, Binghamton, 2008
Research/Special Interests
Dr. Gillespie’s research focuses on southern communities in the middle of the 20th century. Her work on the Citizenship Education Program (CEP) looks at the civil rights movement from a local perspective, focusing on ways that black women used education as a vehicle for social change and influenced broader national debates about race, gender, and citizenship.
She also examined the impact of post-WWII southern economic development, looking at how the transition to the booming Sunbelt of the late 20th century resulted in a mixed legacy for local people and their environment.
Publications
"'A First-Rate Summer Resort:' Gainesville's Mineral Springs and the New South," Georgia Historical Quarterly,107 (Summer 2023).
The Citizenship Education Program and Black Women's Political Culture (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2021). Awarded the Jula Cherry Spruill Prize for Best Book in Southern Women's History of 2021 by the Southern Association of Women's Historians.
“'Revolutionize Life in the Chattahoochee River Valley: Buford Dam and the Development of Northeastern Georgia,' 1950-1970,” Georgia Historical