Faculty Profile
View All Faculty ProfilesDuRocher, Kris, Associate Professor of History
Degrees, Licensures and Certifications: Ph.D., History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL., 2005; M.A., History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL., 2002; B.A., History, Secondary Education, Michigan State University, 2000
Research Interests: U.S. Women’s History
Southern History
Social and Cultural History
Race and Identity
Courses
Global Studies (HIS 201)
Practicing History (HIS 250)
The Civil War and Reconstruction (303)
Women in American History (HIS 312)
American Thought and Life (HIS 319)
Modern Women's History (HIS 399)
African Women's History (HIS 399)
Organizations
Southern Historical Association
Kentucky Association of Teachers of History
Organization of American Historians
American Historical Association
Social Science History Association
Southern Association for Women Historians
Selected Publications
Book: Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South, (University Press of Kentucky, 2011) New Directions in Southern History series, edited by Bill Link
Article: “Finding Your Fate: The Evolution of Librarian-History Faculty Collaboration to Bring History Online,” first author, with Lisa Nichols in Teaching Information Literacy Online (Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc, 2011). Edited by Thomas P. Mackey and Trudi E. Jacobson
Article: “Violent Masculinity: Ritual and Performance in Southern Lynchings, 1877-1939” in Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the New South, Ed., Craig Thompson Friend. University of Georgia Press, 2009, 46-64.