• Lisa Lindquist Dorr
  Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
  Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2000
  
  ldorr@bama.ua.edu
  
  Fall 2008 Office Hours: Tues. 11:00-12:00; Thurs. 1:30-2:00 p.m. and by appointment
  
  Research Interests:
  
• Southern history since 1865
• U. S. Women's History
• Alabama Women and Alcohol during Prohibition


• 1920s Popular Culture in the South
• Women and Family life in the South in the 1920s

Courses Recently Taught:

• American Civilization since 1865
• American South since 1865
• American Women's History
• African American Women's History
• Southern Women's History

Recent Publications:

• White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900- 1960 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
• "Black-on-White Rape and Retribution in Twentieth-Century Virginia" in The Journal of Southern History (November 2000).
• "Another Negro-Did-It Crime" in Sex Without Consent, ed. Merrill Smith (NYU Press, 2001).
  

Grants, Awards, and Honors

• Research Advisory Council Grant from the University of Alabama (2003).
• Fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African and Afro-American Studies, University of Virginia (1998-2000).
  
  

  I consider myself a historian of southern women, and I use gender and race as analytical categories in all of my courses. My current research explores the extent to which changes in popular culture in the 1920s filtered down to women, both black and white, in the South. I am using the lens of alcohol and prohibition to examine not only the jazz culture of the 1920s, but also women's expectations for family life (as drunkenness was grounds for divorce), and the illegal manufacture of alcohol as a way of illuminating the strategies poor families used to eke out a living. I am less interested in elite women's activities as reformers than in the variety of ways alcohol became a part of Alabama women's daily lives. I chose Alabama in part because I am the mother of two small children and need to be able to do all my research on day trips.