Dr. Claire Wolnisty

Assistant Professor of History

History / Academic

Office:

Sherman Hall 122

Mailbox:

61606

Phone:

903.813.2214

Education:

B.A., Creighton University
M.A., The University of Kansas
Ph.D., The University of Kansas

Curriculum Vitae

Faculty Bio:

I am an Assistant Professor of United States history. My research interests include nineteenth-century transnational history, the United States Civil War, Texas, slavery, gender, Mexican American history, trade networks, borderlands, immigration, Brazil, and citizenship. My teaching dabbles in a range of topics such as origin stories, Confederate colonies in the Amazon, and Texas’ love of H-E-B. My most recent scholarship is my book with the University of Nebraska Press, A Different Manifest Destiny: Southern Identity, Citizenship, and Survival in Nineteenth-Century South America. I also work with Austin College’s CIC Legacies of American Slavery grant team.

Recent Courses:

• History of the U.S. to 1876
• U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction
• Mexican American history
• Texas history
• Colonial American and Revolution history
• Early 19^th Century US history
• Smugglers and Pirates
• JanTerm
• First-Year Seminar