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Amanda Linda Huse
  • Title
    • PhD Candidate
    • Teaching Assistant
  • Division Humanities Division
  • Department
    • History Department
  • Email
  • Office Location
    • Remote work location, Via Zoom
  • Office Hours By appointment
  • Mail Stop History Department

Research Interests

U.S. history, Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery and emancipation, history of women and gender, intersections of race and gender in American communities, digital history

Biography, Education and Training

My research interests include late 18th to early 20th century United States history, slavery and emancipation, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the effects of gender and race in American society. My current project, "'She was afraid I would tell it:' Women and Ku-Klux Violence in Reconstruction Georgia," combines close reading and digital network mapping methodologies to examine the political and social roles of Black and white women in the Reconstruction South and the power of women’s formal and informal testimony within Southern communities, especially as it relates to Ku-Klux violence. 

Education

  • M.A in History, University of California, Santa Cruz (2020)
  • B.A. in History, University of California, Davis (2018)

UCSC Teaching Fellow

  • United States History to 1877 (Summer 2023, Summer 2024)

UCSC Teaching Assistantships

  • The United States, from its Founding to the Present 
  • United States History to 1877
  • United States History 1877-the present
  • Colonial Latin America
  • The Civil War Era
  • Introduction to American Religious Culture
  • The History of the English Language
  • The History of Medical and Scientific Terminology 
  • Athenian Democracy 

UCSC Teaching and Learning Center Certificates

  • Teaching for Equity
  • Course Design and. Delivery

 

Honors, Awards and Grants

Carol Gold Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize, 2024 Western Association of Women Historians Conference

UCSC History Department Dissertation Quarter Fellowship, Fall 2023

UCSC History Department Summer Fellowship, 2023, 2022, 2021

The Humanities Institute, UCSC, Summer Research Fellowship, 2022, 2020

UCSC Regent’s Fellowship 2018

Selected Presentations

“Rereading Congressional Ku-Klux Testimony: Women and Ku-Klux Violence in Reconstruction Georgia,” 2024 Western Association of Women Historians Conference

“‘She was afraid I would tell it’: Women and Ku-Klux Violence in White County, Georgia, 1870-1871,” 2021 Georgia Association of Historians Conference