Melissa Mceuen
Professor
History
Transylvania University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Melissa has completed her Ph.D. in Louisiana State University in 1991, M.A. in Louisiana State University in 1986 and B.A. in Georgetown College in 1983. She is the member of American Studies Association, Edith Wharton Society, Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky Association for Teachers of History, Organization of American Historians, Southern Historical Association, Southern Association for Women Historians (Mentoring Committee).
Research Interest
Women in the United States, 1900-1950, Photography and other visual representation, Gender, race, class and cultural studies, The modern American South.
Publications
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Seeing America: Women Photographers Between the Wars (University Press of Kentucky, 2000).
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Foreword, Star-Spangled Hearts: American Women Veterans of World War II, ed. Jeffrey S. Suchanek (Frankfort, Ky: Broadstone Books, 2011).
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Making War, Making Women: Femininity and Duty on the American Home Front, 1941-1945 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011).
