Melissa Ann McEuen

Background

Melissa Ann McEuen was born on March 19, 1961, in Princeton, Kentucky, United States. She is a daughter of James Bruce McEuen and Peggy Sue McEuen.

Education

In 1983, Melissa graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown College with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Then, in 1986, she obtained a Master of Arts degree from Louisiana State University. Later, Melissa continued her education at the same university, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1991.

Career

In 1989, Melissa was appointed a lecturer in History at Louisiana State University, the post she held till 1990. Then, in August 1991, she moved to Georgetown College as an assistant professor of History, remaining in that position till July 1995. In September 1995, Melissa began working as a professor of History at Transylvania University. The courses she has taught at the educational establishment include "Women in American Life and Thought", "The Emergence of Modern America", "American Women and World War II", "Shooting America: Photography, 1860-1960", "The Civil War in American Memory" and "Modern England".

Melissa authored such books, as "Seeing America: Women Photographers Between the Wars" (2000) and "Making War, Making Women: Femininity and Duty on the American Home Front, 1941-1945" (2011). Besides, she edited the work "Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times" (2015) and wrote a foreword for ""Star-spangled Hearts": American Women Veterans of World War II" (2011). She also contributed articles and reviews to academic journals, including the Journal of American History, the Journal of Southern History, the Journal of Women's History, the Filson Club History Quarterly, the Mississippi Quarterly and the History of Photography.

Currently, Melissa continues to hold the post of a professor of History at Transylvania University, where she is also program director.

Achievements

• Melissa Ann McEuen is a well-known professor of History, who serves at Transylvania University. She examines such topics, as "Women in the United States, 1900-1950", "Photography and other visual representation", "Gender, race, class and cultural studies" and "The modern American South". Besides, Melissa is the author of the award-winning "Seeing America: Women Photographers between the Wars" and "Making War, Making Women: Femininity and Duty on the American Home Front, 1941-1945".
  
  Melissa's awards include the Emily Toth Award, the J. Walter Thompson Research Award, the Institute for Southern Studies Research Fellowship, Dr. Byron and Judy Young Faculty Development Grant and the Dumbarton Oaks Research Award.
  
  It's also worth noting, that, in 2008 and 2009, McEuen was the Carnegie-CASE United States Professor of the Year nominee.

Works

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• book

  • Making War, Making Women: Femininity and Duty on the American Home Front, 1941-1945

    (Using perspectives of cultural studies and feminist theor...)

    2011
  • "Star-spangled Hearts": American Women Veterans of World War II

    (During World War II well over a quarter of a million Amer...)

    2011
  • Seeing America: Women Photographers Between the Wars

    (In the 1920's and 1930's, photography transformed and dom...)

    2000
  • Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times

    (Edited by Melissa A. McEuen and Thomas H. Appleton, "Kent...)

    2015

Views

Quotations: "I write because there are so many untold stories about women. As a discipline, women's history is relatively young - there's so much yet to be discovered, mined and interpreted. Researching and writing about other women's lives helps me make sense of my own life and work, and I hope, that my readers are able to realize the bridge between themselves and those, who lived in the past."

Membership

Melissa is a member of the American Studies Association, the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Southern Historical Association, the Southern Association for Women Historians and the Kentucky-Tennessee American Studies Association.

• president

  Kentucky Association of Teachers of History , United States

  1999 - 2000

Interests

• reading and traveling

• Sport & Clubs

  swimming

Connections

Melissa married Edward F. Stanton, a university professor, on June 7, 1996.

Father:

James Bruce McEuen

Mother:

Peggy Sue McEuen

husband:

Edward F. Stanton