Hillary Anderson
Hillary Anderson
Associate Professor and BSE Coordinator
Irby 402
(501) 450-3158
SPRING 2026 OFFICE HOURS
M 1:00-4:30; W 1:00-3:30;
by appointment
Hillary R. Anderson聽is a social historian of the late twentieth-century United States, focusing on individual and collective identity formation and how identity manifests in liberative action.聽 She earned her PhD at Texas A&M University with fields of study in African American History, the Atlantic and Caribbean World, and a certificate in Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies.聽 Her most recent research specifically investigates the discourse on Southern identity within lesbian feminist communities in the 1970s; it appears in the聽Journal of American Studies Association of Texas聽and the edited collection聽Queering Spirituality and Community in the Deep South.
At 每日大赛网站, Dr. Anderson serves as the BSE Social Studies Coordinator for the History Department.聽 Teaching history is Dr. Anderson鈥檚 favorite professional activity.聽 Besides the survey, America in the Modern Era: the US since 1877, and a section of The Historian鈥檚 Craft, her courses at 每日大赛网站 include a First Year Seminar on Sports in American History, Recent American History (1960 鈥� present), Queer History of the US, and Music and Identity Politics in US History.聽