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Mary Waalkes
Associate Professor of History
Educational Background:
- B.S. Secondary Education, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
- M.A. in History, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Ph.D. in History, University of Colorado, Boulder
Career Experience:
- Assistant Professor at Lee University, Cleveland, Tennessee
- Adjunct Professor at Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
- Adjunct Lecturer at Pikes Peak Community College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Additional Position at Brewton-Parker College:
- Curator of the Cooper-Conner Site
Academic Interests:
- Civil Rights in Eastern Tennessee
- Race and class in the South
- African-American History
- Colonial American History
- Women’s History
Courses Taught at BPC:
- U.S. Survey from Colonial to the Present
- Colonial America
- The Early National Period—American History
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- Gilded Era and the Progressive Era
- The Great Depression
- The Vietnam War
- U.S. Women’s History
- African American History
- The West
- History of the South
- Humanities—The Renaissance to the Romantic Era
Most Recent Paper Presentation:
- “Flying Below the Radar: Activist, Paternalist, and Obstructionist Responses to the Civil Rights Movement in Three East Tennessee Communities” at the Appalachian Studies Association, March 2006, Dayton, Ohio.
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