Emily Mieras
Associate Professor of History and American Studies; Director of American Studies Program
Emily Mieras is a scholar of American History and culture focusing on historical memory, nostalgia, gender, and regional identity from the nineteenth- through mid-twentieth centuries. Trained in American Studies, she takes an interdisciplinary approach to her research and teaching. She teaches a wide range of courses in U. S. History and American Studies, many of which count toward the Stetson Gender Studies program. She is particularly interested in scholarship and teaching that makes the invisible visible, surfacing the underlying patterns and ideas that shape American experiences.
- PhD The College of William and Mary, American Studies, 1998
- AB Harvard College, History and Government, 1990
Biography
Emily Mieras is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of Stetson's American Studies Program. She holds a PhD in American Studies from The College of William and Mary and an AB from Harvard and has been at Stetson since 1998.
She has researched and published on the history of Progressive Era college students social activism and is currently working on a history of nostalgia, historical memory, and regional identity in the American Southeast, tentatively titled Progressive People in Elysian Lands: Making and Marketing Community Identity in the American South 1870-1970. Her teaching areas include the US South, American Consumer Culture, Gender and Women's History, and Progressive Era social movements.
More About Emily Mieras
Areas of Expertise
- US women's and gender history
- Historical Memory in the United States
- Progressive-era social reform
- The history of American consumer culture.
Course Sampling
- The Birth of Modern America
- Southern Culture(s)
- US Women's History
- The American Revolution
- American Consumer Culture
Historical memory; nostalgia; constructions of local and regional identity
- In Search Of A More Perfect Sympathy: Harvards Phillips Brooks House Association And The Challenges Of Student Voluntarism, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 16 (2017), 163182.
- Latter-Day Knights: The College Settlements Association and the Redefinition of Higher Education in the Progressive Era, Anne M. Knupfer and Christine Woyshner, Eds., The Educational Work of Women's Organizations, 1890-1960 (Palgrave, 2007).
- Tales from the Other Side of the Bridge: YMCA Manhood, Social Class and Social Reform in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Philadelphia, Gender & History 17:2, August 2005.