Dr. Catherine Adams has been a member of the 黑料传送门 faculty since 2007. Professor Adams is an expert in the history of African-Americans in the early United States. Her research interests include early American history, African American history, women's history, and material culture. In 2010, Dr. Adams co-authored Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. in History, University of Illinois
Publications
Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England
Research Interests
- Early America
- African American
- Women
- Material Culture
Classes
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HIST 267: Women & US Social Movements
This course will explore the role of women in selected social movements with particular attention to how women's involvements often leads to subsequent movements for women's rights. Possible areas of emphasis include the connections between the 19th century abolitionist movement and the subsequent women's rights/woman suffrage movement or the connections between the modern Civil Rights Movement and the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
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WRTG 105: Wrtg: Meaningful Things
This course lays the foundation for students to participate insightfully in both written and oral academic conversations. The course focuses on three modes of written and oral communication: communication as an ongoing persuasive dialogue with multiple audiences, communication with a reflective self, and communication with a dynamic evolving text. The course also introduces elements of information literacy and critical thinking needed to develop and evaluate academic conversation. Writing Seminar is typically taken by new students in their first two semesters, often as the introduction to general education, to our library, and to academic support services as sites of collaboration rather than remediation. As many new students' only seminar-style class, Writing Seminar can help lay the foundations of not only academic but also social success.