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NANCY BERCAW
Associate Professor of History and Southern Studies

Office hours: Tuesday 11:30-12:30; Thursday 1:00-2:00
Bishop 315
662-915-7016
nbercaw@olemiss.edu

Nancy Bercaw has a BA in History from Oberlin College and a MA and a PhD in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania.  Her research and teaching focus on race, gender, and alternative constructions of citizenship in the nineteenth-century South.  She is the editor of Gender and the Southern Body Politic (University Press of Mississippi, 2000) and the author of Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of the Household in the Mississippi Delta, 1861-1875 (University Press of Florida, 2002).  Her current project, "Categories: A Cultural History of 'Black Womanhood' in the Age of Emancipation," examines how "black womanhood" challenged long-held assumptions about the nature of freedom and dependency in nineteenth-century America. Professor Bercaw is the undergraduate advisor for Southern Studies BA students.