Walsh, Kelli Cardenas

Kelli Cardenas Walsh

Kelli Cardenas Walsh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Office: Taylor Social Science 209D
Phone: 910-672-1044
Email: kwalsh@uncfsu.edu

Education

  • University of South Carolina, Ph.D. History. 2006.  
  • Fayetteville State University, MA. History. 1995
  • University of Alaska-Fairbanks, AK. B.A. History. 1991
  • Veteran, United States Army (1987-1991)

Teaching Courses

  • HIST 110, World History to 1600
  • HIST 120, World History Since 1600
  • HIST 211, United States History to 1865
  • HIST 212, United States History Since 1865
  • HIST 301, Civil War and Reconstruction (Hybrid)
  • HIST 362, American Military Experience (Online)
  • HIST 390, North Carolina History (Online)
  • HIST 372, History of Women in the Western World 

Research Interests

  • Women in the Military
  • Oveta Culp Hobby
  • Free Persons of Color in the antebellum South; Leary's, Pattersons, Langston's
  • State and local history 

Publications

  • "A Brief History of Women in Military Service in the United States, " In a Serious Sequence of Hidden Historical Accounts, edited by Stanley W. Johnson. Ronkonkoma, NY: Linus Learning, 2017.
  • "Oveta Culp Hobby" in American Women/Texas Lives, edited by Elizabeth Turner.  Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2015.
  •  Book review for Journal of Southern History, Without Precedent: The Life of Susie Marshall Sharp. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2010.  
  • "Harriet West Waddy," In African American National Biography, edited by Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higgenbotham. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • "Martha Putney," In African American National Biography, edited by Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higgenbotham. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • "Stagecoach Mary," In Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 

Exhibitions

  • 1867 Deed Not Words: The Origins of Fayetteville State University. (Co-Curator) Rosenthal Art Gallery, Fayetteville State University. September -February 2017.                                    
  • 1867 Deeds Not Words: The Origins of Fayetteville State University. Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex. February- May 2018. 

Interviews/Public Programs