Kathryn Nasstrom, Associate Professor of History, teaches in
the U.S. field and specializes in women's history, oral
history, and civil rights history. She received her PhD from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1993 and has been at
USF since 1994.
She is the author of Everybody's Grandmother and
Nobody's Fool: Frances Freeborn Pauley and the Struggle
for Social Justice (Cornell University Press, 2000), and she
has published in the Journal of American History and the
Oral History Review, among other journals. She is also the
editor of the Oral History Review and a series editor for
Oxford University Press's oral history book series. Her
current research is on autobiographies of the civil rights
movement, and she is completing a book manuscript on the
autobiographical literature on the Little Rock school desegregation
crisis.
