Catherine Clinton is Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast. She specializes in American History, with an emphasis on the history of the South

South

South is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography.South is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to east and west.By convention, the bottom side of a map is south....

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Clinton grew up in Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...

, where she graduated from the Sunset Hill School in 1969. Thereafter, she studied sociology

Sociology

Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

 and African-American History at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 (Lowell House

Lowell House

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), graduating in 1973. Clinton received her Ph.D from Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

, after completing her dissertation on under the direction of James M. McPherson

James M. McPherson

James M. McPherson is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom, his most famous book...

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She has held academic positions at numerous institutions of higher learning, including Union College

Union College

Union College is a private, non-denominational liberal arts college located in Schenectady, New York, United States. Founded in 1795, it was the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New York State Board of Regents. In the 19th century, it became the "Mother of Fraternities", as...

, Harvard University - Du Bois Institute, Afro-American Studies Dept., History Dept., Warren Center Affiliate, Brandeis University

Brandeis University

Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...

, and Brown University

Brown University

Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

, Wofford

Wofford

-People:*Dan Wofford, American politician*Harris Wofford , U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1991-1995*James C. Wofford , American equestrian*Mike Wofford , jazz pianist...

, The University of Richmond

University of Richmond

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, Benghazi

Benghazi

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, Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

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, Baruch College

Baruch College

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 of the City University of New York

City University of New York

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 and the Citadel

Citadel

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Clinton is a prolific scholar and holder of academic appointments. She has written for the History Channel, consulted on projects for WGBH

WGBH-TV

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, and is a member of the Screen Writers Guild, and has authored, edited, co-authored or co-edited more than a dozen books to date.

Selected Recent Works

• Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women's History, Michele Gillespie
  Michele Gillespie
  Michele Gillespie is Kahle Family Associate Professor of history at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She specializes in American history, focusing on gender, race, class, and region in the American South from 1790-1920. Gillespie. In 2005, Gillespie served as President of...
  
   and Catherine Clinton, eds. (Columbia, MO 1998)
• Tara Revisited: Woman, War, & the Plantation Legend (1995)
• The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South, Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie
  Michele Gillespie
  Michele Gillespie is Kahle Family Associate Professor of history at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She specializes in American history, focusing on gender, race, class, and region in the American South from 1790-1920. Gillespie. In 2005, Gillespie served as President of...
  
  , eds.
• Fanny Kemble
  Fanny Kemble
  Frances Anne Kemble , was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century.-Youth and acting career:...
  
  's Journals (Cambridge, MA, 2000)
• Harriet Tubman: the Road to Freedom (New York, 2004)
• Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars (Oxford, 2006)

External links

• Academic homepage at Queen's University's site
• Catherine Clinton author homepage