Anya Jabour

Anya Jabour is Regents Professor of History. An expert in gender, society, and politics in the US, she teaches courses in US women’s history, family history, and southern history as well as upper-division and graduate courses focused on historical research and writing. 

She has authored four books, Marriage in the Early Republic, Scarlett’s Sisters, Topsy-Turvy, and Sophonisba Breckinridge, and has edited a collection on Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children and another on Family Values in the Old South, and has published numerous articles and essays. She also served as a historical consultant for the PBS Civil War miniseries, Mercy Street. 

Fields of study:

• U.S. Social, Political, and Cultural History
• Progressive Era and New Deal
• Women, Family, Gender, and Sexuality
• the American South

Women in America:  From the Colonial Era to the Civil War

Women in America:  From the Civil War to the Present

The American South:  From Slavery to Civil Rights

Families and Children in America from the Colonial Era to the Present

Introduction to Historical Methods

Graduate Seminar:  U.S. Women’s History

Graduate Seminar: Gender, Society, and Politics in the U.S.

Graduate Research Seminar

Writing Women’s Lives: Biography, Microhistory, and Local History

Born in the U.S.A.: American History through Children’s Eyes (adult education)

Women’s Rights and Women’s Roles Around the World (global leadership initiative first-year seminar)

Women’s Activism and Human Rights in the U.S. (adult education)           

Confederate, Union, and Contraband: The Drama of the Civil War (adult education)