Catherine Clinton

Catherine Clinton (born 1952) is Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast. She specializes in American History, with an emphasis on the history of the South.

Clinton completed her dissertation on under the direction of James M. McPherson at Princeton University.

She has held academic positions at numerous institutions of higher learning, including Union College, Harvard University - Du Bois Institute, Afro-American Studies Dept., History Dept., Warren Center Affiliate, Brandeis University, and Brown University, Wofford, The University of Richmond, Benghazi, Wesleyan University, Baruch College of the City University of New York and the Citadel.

Clinton is a prolific scholar and holder of academic appointments. She has written for the History Channel, consulted on projects for WGBH, and is a member of the Screen Writers Guild, and has authored, edited, co-authored or co-edited more than a dozen books to date.

Selected Recent Works

• Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women's History, Michele Gillespie and Catherine Clinton, eds. (Columbia, MO 1998)
• Tara Revisited: Woman, War, & the Plantation Legend (1995)
• The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South, Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie, eds.
• Fanny Kemble's Journals (Cambridge, MA, 2000)
• Harriet Tubman: the Road to Freedom (New York, 2004)
• Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars (Oxford, 2006)

External links

• Academic homepage at Queen's University's site