Walsh, Kelli Cardenas

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

EXPERIENCE

FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY

Associate Professor, History 2017-present
Assistant Professor, History 2008 - 2017
Lecturer, History 2003 - 2008, 1996 - 2001

• Strong knowledge of World, United States, Military, North Carolina, and Women’s History.
• Teach the American Military Experience course to ROTC and Intelligence Studies students as a part of their major curriculum.
• Knowledge of assessment procedures and maintaining records.
• Proven experience in working with diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to think critically and create assessments.
• Skilled in maintaining positive working relationships with students, faculty, administrators, and community leaders.
• Facilitate discussion and community outreach.
• Strong archival research skills in subject matters
• Provide lectures and historical programming on United States History subject matter to various audiences.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

Graduate Assistant 2001-2003

• Conduct primary source research.
• Lead discussion sessions with students.
• Maintain records and provide feedback to students and lead faculty.

CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY

History Instructor, Adjunct 1995-2002

• Instruct students in World and United States History
• Maintain records.
• Develop assessments.
• Prepare instructional materials and deliver lectures.

MILITARY SERVICE

U.S. Army. (1987-1991) 

EDUCATION

University of South Carolina 2001-2006
Columbia, SC

Doctor of Philosophy, History
United States History, 1789-Present
Sub fields; Women and African American History

Dissertation:
Oveta Culp Hobby: A Transformational Leader from the Texas Legislature to Washington D.C.

Fayetteville State University 1992-1993
Fayetteville, NC
Masters of Arts, History

University of Alaska 1991
Fairbanks, NC
Bachelor of Arts, History

PUBLICATIONS

Co-Authored with Queonnah Coleman. “Death Spaces in an era of segregation. Who and where are your people? Identifying names and life stories that segregation set in stone.” (pending 2025).

Co-authored with Nicholle Young St. Leone. “A Story to Tell History of Fayetteville State University). (pending, 2025). (Chapter)

Book Review for University of Virginia Press. A Soldier's Life: A Black Woman's Rise from Army Brat to Six Triple Eight Champion (The Black Soldier in War and Society: New Narratives and Critical Perspectives by Edna W. Cummings. (2023).

“Leary Sisters: Silent Abolitionists.” In Sesquicentennial Lecture, Edited by Greg Rich. Fayetteville State University, 2019.

“Martyred Son: Lewis Leary and the Raid at Harpers Ferry. Submitted to North Carolina Historical Review – Revise and Resubmit.

"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. (Chapter)

"Oveta Culp Hobby" in American Women/Texas Lives, edited by Elizabeth Turner. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2015. (Chapter)

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. (Article)

"Martha Putney," In African American National Biography edited by Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higgenbotham. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. (Article)

Oveta Culp Hobby: A Transformational Leader from the Texas Legislature to Washington, D.C. Columbia: University of South Carolina. 2006. (Dissertation)

"Stagecoach Mary," In Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. (Article)

VOLUNTEER

African American Education and Research Opportunities 2019-present Board of Directors member. AAERO

NC Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction History Center 2019-present

Board of Directors member. Support programming, fundraising and speakers’ program while transforming a local regional museum into a state historical complex telling the story of North Carolinians from 1830-1900

Contributing Scholar.

Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex Foundation 2010- present

President. Conduct meetings, recruit new board members, support the museum complex with fundraising and grant proposals.

St. Patrick Church History and Archives Ministry 2015- present

Committee Member. Collect, Identify, catalog and document material culture collected from church members and Diocesan archives. Prepare exhibitions to commemorate special events.

Airborne and Special Operations Museum 1999-2002

Volunteer. Support collections, documentation, archiving and exhibition production during the development stage of the museum and after it opened to the public.

AWARDS

• College of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Service - 2023
• Advisor of the Year, College of Arts and Sciences - 2018
• Teacher of the Year; Fayetteville State University Fort Bragg, NC - 2002

List of presentations available upon request.