Jennifer Newman

EMAIL: newmaje@auburn.edu

Jennifer Newman received her BA in history from Auburn University Montgomery in the spring of 2004. She entered the PhD program in history at Auburn University in the fall of 2004. She is studying the Civil War era under Dr. Ken Noe. Her dissertation topic deals with religion and the construction of identity in the Civil War South.

Jennifer is a member of the Alabama Historical Association, the Southern Historical Association, and Phi Alpha Theta. She served as chapter Historian of the Kappa Pi chapter of the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society in 2005-2006 and as the chapter president for 2006-2007. She works as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the History Department, where she is serving as GTA captain for 2006-2008. She is a co-founder of the Civil War Discussion Group at Auburn University, which is a monthly discussion forum held within Auburn's Department of History. She is also teaching as an adjunct at Auburn Montgomery. In 2005 she presented her paper "Reconciling Religion and the Civil War: The Religious Views of Elizabeth Rhodes" at the Phi Alpha Theta Regional Meeting held at the University of South Alabama. In 2006 and again in 2007 she presented papers examining U.S. public opinion of Napoleon Bonaparte during the Hundred Days period at the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era. She gave a talk at the Comer Library in October 2007.

She passed her preliminary exams in February 2007 under the supervision of major field professors Dr. Ken Noe and Dr. Kathryn Braund and minor field professors Dr. David Carter (U.S. History since 1877) and Dr. Donna Bohanan (Early Modern European History). She is currently working on her dissertation titled "Writing, Religion, and Women’s Identity in Civil War Alabama."

Last updated Oct. 23, 2007.
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