Emily Senefeld
Graduate Student (ABD)
Advisor: Grace Elizabeth Hale
Office Hours: Mondays 1:00-2:00 and by appointment
Office: Alderman Cafe
Email: ees2b (at) virginia.edu
Fields & Specialties
20th Century US Cultural History; the South; working-class culture
Education:
Ph.D., History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (expected May 2015)
M.A., History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (May 2010)
Thesis: “’I’ll Never Pass Again’: Narratives of Racial Passing in African-American Confession Magazines of the 1950s”
B.A., History, summa cum laude, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee (May 2005)
Departmental Honors
Thesis: “Snow White-ness: How American Cartoons of the 1930s and 1940s Construct Racial Identity”
Current Research:
My dissertation examines the history of the Highlander Folk School from 1932 to 1962, with an emphasis on how the school used labor and folk music, as well as dramas and documentary films, as tools for organizing in labor and civil rights.
Teaching Experience:
Teaching Assistant, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia:
History of Gender and Sexuality in America, 1865 to Present, Prof. Corinne Field (Spring 2013, 3 sections)
Coming of Age in America, Prof. Corinne Field (Fall 2012, 3 sections)
The South in the Twentieth Century, Prof. Grace Hale (Spring 2012, 6 sections)
The Rise and Fall of the Slave South, Prof. Elizabeth Varon (Fall 2011, 3 Sections)
The Civil Rights Movement, Prof. Julian Bond (Spring 2011, 3 sections)
The Birth of Europe, Prof. Paul Kershaw (Fall 2010, 3 sections)
The Civil Rights Movement, Prof. Julian Bond (Spring 2010, 3 sections)
The Civil Rights Movement, Prof. Julian Bond(Fall 2009, 3 section)
Graduate Assistant, Summer Transition Program, University of Virginia (July 2012)
Publications:
Emily Senefeld and Eric Wilson, Ecce Quam Bonum: A Pictorial History of the University of the South. Edited by Dr. Samuel Williamson and Dr. Gerald Smith. Sewanee, TN: University of the South, 2007.
Conferences and Presentations:
“Gender in the Great Depression,” Guest Lecture, Gender and Sexuality in America, 1865 to Present, Prof. Corinne Field, March 2013.
“’We Shall Not Be Moved’: Highlander Folk School’s Radical Uses of Appalachian Folk Culture During the Great Depression,” Eastern American Studies Association Annual Conference, Harrisonburg, Virginia, March 2013.
Service:
Member, Planning Committee, Graduate History Conference, "Historicizing the Present," University of Virginia, February 2013
Co-Chair, History Graduate Liaison Committee (Spring 2012)
Editor-in-Chief, Essays in History (graduate journal of the Corcoran Department of History,
University of Virginia), 2011-2012
New Media Assistant Editor, Essays in History, 2010-2011
Manuscript reviewer, Essays in History, 2010, 2011
Co-Chair, Planning Committee, Third Annual Graduate History Conference, “Treachery and Traitors,” University of Virginia, April 2010
Fellowships and Honors:
Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library Grant-in-Aid (Summer 2012)
Corcoran Department of History Summer Research Grants (2011, 2012)
Departmental Fellowship, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia (2008-2011)
Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society
Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society
Colonial Dames Award, 2006 (annual award from University of the South for excellence in American history)
