Society for Women and the Civil War
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| Box #9066 8345 NW 66th St. Miami, FL 33166 (804) 244-1864 www.swcw.org |
| Victoria Ott |
Arkadelphia Road
Birmingham, AL 35254
(205)226-7826
vott@bsc.edu
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL POSITION:
Ph.D., University of Tennessee, May 2003
Major field: Nineteenth-century U.S. History; Advisor: Dr. Stephen Ash
Dissertation title: “When the Flower Blooms in Winter: Young Women Coming of Age in the Confederacy”
Assistant Professor of History, Birmingham-Southern College (2004 to present).
SELECTED HONORS:
National Phi Alpha Theta Doctoral Scholarship, 2002-03.
American History Scholarship, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Tennessee, Nashville, 2002.
Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, 2001.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:
“Widows and Orphans, 1898-1945,” entry for Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront encyclopedia series, Macmillan
Library Reference, forthcoming.
“Women on the Civil War Homefront,” entry for Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront encyclopedia series, Macmillan
Library Reference, forthcoming.
“The Confederacy’s Daughters: Elite Young Women, Work, and Family in the Civil War South,” War, Diplomacy, and Society Colloquium,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, scheduled for February 13, 2004.
“The Politicized Belle: A Generation of Young Women and the Call for Confederate Nationalism,” Mid-America Conference on History,
Fayetteville, Arkansas, September 20, 2002.
“When the Flower Blooms in Winter: Young White Women in the Civil War South,” Southern Association of Women Historians Triennial
Conference, University of Richmond, June 16, 2000.
Birmingham, AL 35254
(205)226-7826
vott@bsc.edu
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL POSITION:
Ph.D., University of Tennessee, May 2003
Major field: Nineteenth-century U.S. History; Advisor: Dr. Stephen Ash
Dissertation title: “When the Flower Blooms in Winter: Young Women Coming of Age in the Confederacy”
Assistant Professor of History, Birmingham-Southern College (2004 to present).
SELECTED HONORS:
National Phi Alpha Theta Doctoral Scholarship, 2002-03.
American History Scholarship, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Tennessee, Nashville, 2002.
Mellon Research Fellowship, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, 2001.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:
“Widows and Orphans, 1898-1945,” entry for Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront encyclopedia series, Macmillan
Library Reference, forthcoming.
“Women on the Civil War Homefront,” entry for Americans at War: Society, Culture, and the Homefront encyclopedia series, Macmillan
Library Reference, forthcoming.
“The Confederacy’s Daughters: Elite Young Women, Work, and Family in the Civil War South,” War, Diplomacy, and Society Colloquium,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, scheduled for February 13, 2004.
“The Politicized Belle: A Generation of Young Women and the Call for Confederate Nationalism,” Mid-America Conference on History,
Fayetteville, Arkansas, September 20, 2002.
“When the Flower Blooms in Winter: Young White Women in the Civil War South,” Southern Association of Women Historians Triennial
Conference, University of Richmond, June 16, 2000.