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Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Rebecca Sharpless
"Everybody's Great-Grandmother: Texas Farm Women before World War II"
Nursing Building - Room 107
Dr. Sharpless teaches and researches in U.S. women's history, particularly in the South, at Texas Christian University. She received her Ph.D. from Emory University. Her first book, Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 1999), explored the lives of ordinary women in Central Texas. Her new book “Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the Sourth, 1865-1960" has just been released. Sharpless directed the Baylor University Institute for Oral History from 1993 to 2006 and in 2005-2006 served as president of the Oral History Association. She coedited The Handbook of Oral History (AltaMira Press, 2006). Sharpless is at present on the board of the Southern Association for Women Historians.