Kathryn Tucker (History)

Dr. Kathryn Tucker is assistant professor of United States History at the University of Montevallo. She earned her PhD and MA in History from the University of Georgia, and her BA in History from Wake Forest University. Dr. Tucker joined the University of Montevallo faculty in 2024 after previously teaching at Troy University, where she was awarded the Dr. Robert Kruckeberg Faculty Excellence Award in 2021.

Dr. Tucker teaches a wide variety of courses ranging from World and US History to African American History and the Civil Rights Movement, Southern History, and Women’s History. Her research focuses on southern history and race relations from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Movement, and her book, Regulating Race: Miscegenation and Mixed Race in Laws and Communities of the Jim Crow South, is forthcoming from the University of Georgia Press. Additional research projects have included an oral history of school integration during the Civil Rights Movement, as well as the impact of violence during the Jim Crow period. She has presented her work at conferences ranging from the Organization of American Historians to the European Association for Americans Studies meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.

Dr. Tucker particularly enjoys working with students to develop original local history projects that tie their own communities to larger historical themes; some of the work she and her students have completed is available at LegacyofLynching.com.

See Dr. Tucker’s CV here.