Sandra Slater
Assistant Professor
Slater received her Ph.D. from University of Kentucky. Her dissertation is entitled "The Making of Men: Comparative Constructions of Military Masculinities in the New World."
Professor Slater is currently co-editing a volume of collected essays entitled "Gender and Sexuality in Native North American Societies, 1400-1840", for the University of Oklahoma Press.
Her essay "Creating Race in the Early Modern French Atlantic World, 1700-1815" will be published by the University of Georgia Press.
Education
2006 - Ph.D., History University of Kentucky
2005 - M.A., History University of Kentucky
2003 - B.A., History and American Studies, minor in English and music
Research Interests
Women and Gender Studies; Early Modern Atlantic World; Colonial America
Slater is currently co-editing a volume of collected essays entitled "Gender and Sexuality in Native North American Societies, 1400-1840", University of Oklahoma Press.
Courses Taught
surveys, special topics in U.S. History
Publications
Review of Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the Creation of the United States. By John Gilbert McCurdy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2009. History: Review of New Books. Online (2010).
Review of Schooling Citizens: The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum . By Hilary J. Moss. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. The History Teacher. Vol. 43, No. 2 (February 2010).
"Emasculation and Manliness in North America, 1450-1640." Gender and Sexuality in Native. Sandra Slater and Fay Yarbrough, Eds. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press (Forthcoming-Accepted).
Sandra Slater and Fay Yarbrough, Eds. Gender and Sexuality in Native Columbia: University of South Carolina Press (Forthcoming)
Conferences and Presentations
"Constructing Masculinity on the Atlantic Ocean: The Voyages of Missionaries and Explorers in the New World" 2010 Gender in Everyday Life Conference, Idaho State University
CLAW Colloquium Presentation: "'Godly Carriage and Christian Behavior': God's Masculinity in Puritan New England, 1620-1650" (January 2010)
