Overview
Susan earned her Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire in 2019. She is a member of the inaugural class of the American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Voices Fellows and will be supporting the Rural Humanities’ Rural Black Lives Initiative for the 2020-2021 school year. She has been teaching at the collegiate level for 14 years including courses at Brown University, the University of New Hampshire, the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Granite State College, and the Boston Architectural College. Susan’s forthcoming monograph, Rebel Rebels: Race, Resistance, and Remembrance in the “Free State of Winston,” is being published by the University Press of Kentucky as a part of their New Directions in Southern History series. Her current research focuses on the entangled history of the Cherokee Removal in the Southeast and the generations of mixed, Scots-Irish/ Cherokee descendants who became a neutral movement in parts of Alabama and Tennessee during the Civil War. The project further fractures the idea of the ideologically monolithic South and challenges basic assumptions about whiteness, inclusion, heritage, and allegiance. In addition to her academic scholarship, Susan has also written more than twenty editorials as a Huffington Post contributor.