Jeannie Whayne

Jeannie M. Whayne (born May 23, 1948 ) is an American historian. Her research interests are the history of agriculture and the history of the southern states . In doing so, she looks at the Lower Mississippi Delta region (especially Arkansas ) and examines the historical interplay of social and cultural aspects there with race relations , changes in environmental conditions and changes in agriculture.

Life

Whayne studied at the University of California, San Diego , where he obtained in 1979 a Bachelor of Arts , 1981 a Master of Arts and in 1989 a Ph.D. In the spring of 1989 she was a lecturer in the History Department at San Diego State University . That summer she was a lecturer in the History Department at San Diego City College . She then taught from 1989 to 1990 as an Assistant Professor in the History Department of Western Washington University . In 1990 she moved to the University of Arkansas , where she has since taught at the University's History Department , from 1990 to 1996 as Assistant Professor, from 1996 to 2004 as Associate Professor and since 2004 as Professor. From 1998 to 2008 she was Chair of the History Department .

In addition to teaching at the University of Arkansas, she was Research Fellow at the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia from 1992 to 1993 and Director of the Arkansas Center for Oral and Visual History from 1999 to 2005 . She was also Treasurer of the Arkansas Historical Association from 1990 to 2008 , and Editor of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly from 1990 to 2003 . From June 2013 to June 2014 she was President of the Agricultural History Society .

Whayne is a member of the Agricultural History Society , the American Historical Association , the Arkansas Association of College History Teachers , the Arkansas Historical Association , the Conference of Historical Journals , the Organization of American Historians , the Rural Women's Studies Association , the Southern Association of Women Historians , the Southern Historical Association, and the Southern Studies Institute .

Whayne received a total of three Arkansiana Awards from the Arkansas Library Association . Together with Willard B. Gatewood, she received the Virginia C. Ledbetter Prize in the category Best Book in Arkansas Studies in 1993 for Arkansas Delta: A Land of Paradox . Her book Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South received the JG Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association . She has been a Fellow of the Agricultural History Society since 2010 . In 2014, Whayne received the Arkansas Historical Association's Lifetime Achievement Award .

Publications (selection)

• Jeannie Whayne, Willard Gatewood [Eds.]: The Arkansas Delta: Land of Paradox (1993, Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press)
• Jeannie Whayne [Ed.]: Shadows Over Sunnyside: Evolution of a Plantation in Arkansas, 1830-1945 (1993, Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press)
• Jeannie Whayne, Timothy P. Donovan, Willard B. Gatewood [Eds.]: The Governors of Arkansas (1995, 2nd Edition, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press)
• Jeannie Whayne [Ed.]: Cultural Encounters in the Early South: Indians and Europeans in Arkansas (1995, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press)
• Jeannie Whayne: A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth Century Arkansas (1996, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia)
• Nancy Williams, Jeannie Whayne [Eds.]: Arkansas Biography: A Collection of Notable Lives (2000, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press)
• Jeannie Whayne, Tom DeBlack, George Sabo, Morris S. Arnold: Arkansas: A Narrative History (2002, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press)
• Todd G. Shields, Jeannie M. Whayne, Donald R. Kelley [Eds.]: The Clinton Riddle: Essays on the Forty-second President (2004, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press)
• Patrick Williams, S. Charles Bolton, Jeannie Whayne [Eds.]: A Whole Country in Commotion: The Louisiana Purchase and the American Southwest (2005, Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press)
• Jeannie Whayne: Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South (2011, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press)
• Angie Maxwell, Todd Shields, Jeannie Whayne: The Ongoing Burden of Southern History: Politics and Identity in the 21st Century South (2012, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press)

Web links

• Biography on the University of Arkansas website