Office Address:	Schroeder 307B
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Office Phone:	(309) 438-8487
Office Hours:	W 2-3 & R 4-5 & by appt.
Email:	Contact Amy Wood (alwood)
Website:	Visit Amy Wood’s Website

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Course Number	Section	Course Name	Time	Room Number
HIS136.0	1	History of the United States Since 1865	T R 14:00 - 15:15	CVA 0149
HIS324.0	1	American Cultural and Intellectual HistoryI 1860-Present	T 18:00 - 20:50	SCH 0102
HIS400.0	30	Independent Study

Teaching Interests: She teaches courses in American cultural and intellectual history, in U.S. southern history, and visual culture and film history. Research Interests: Professor Wood specializes in American cultural history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the history of the U.S. South. She is the author of Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), which examines visual representations of lynching and the construction of white supremacy in the Jim Crow era. Lynching and Spectacle won the Lillian Smith Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in HIstory. She is also the co-guest editor of issue of Mississippi Quarterly on lynching, representation, and memory, and the editor of the volume on violence for the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2011). Education: Wesleyan University, Connecticut, B.A., 1990 University of Mississippi, M.A., 1995 Emory University, Ph.D., 2002

Teaching Interests:

She teaches courses in American cultural and intellectual history, in U.S. southern history, and visual culture and film history.

Research Interests:

Professor Wood specializes in American cultural history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the history of the U.S. South. She is the author of Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009), which examines visual representations of lynching and the construction of white supremacy in the Jim Crow era. Lynching and Spectacle won the Lillian Smith Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in HIstory. She is also the co-guest editor of issue of Mississippi Quarterly on lynching, representation, and memory, and the editor of the volume on violence for the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2011).

Education:

Wesleyan University, Connecticut, B.A., 1990
University of Mississippi, M.A., 1995
Emory University, Ph.D., 2002

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