Professional and Research Interests

 

The new book is out:
Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960. University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

 

I am currently working on two articles on domestic workers and one on women's education in antebellum Texas.  The Texas piece is for a volume on Texas women that I am co-editing with Stephanie Cole and Elizabeth Hayes Turner.  I anticipate that my next book project will be on women food entrepreneurs in the American South. 

 

Other publications:

With Lois Myers, Rock beneath the Sand: Country Churches in Texas. Texas A&M University Press, 2003.

Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940. University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

 

Edited Volumes

With Thomas Charlton and Lois Myers, Research Handbook of Oral History. AltaMira Press, 2006.

With Melissa Walker, Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century. University of Missouri Press, 2006.