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Dr. Kelly Minor, Ph.D.

Dr. Kelly Minor, Ph.D.

Instructor

Office: 364 Scott Shipp Hall

Phone: 540-464-7894

Email: minorka@vmi.edu

Fields: World History, US History, Women’s History, Rural History

Honors and Awards

  • National Endowment for the Humanities “Bridging Cultures” Grant, Santa Fe College, 2014
  • College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Research Grant, University of Florida, 2004
  • Linda Vance Award in Women’s History, University of Florida, 2003
  • Alumni Fellowship, University of Florida, 2002
  • Proctor Award for Excellence in Scholarship in Florida History, University of Florida, 2000
  • Proctor Fellowship; Grinter Fellowship, University of Florida, 2000
  • Scholarly and Creative Activity Grants, University of West Florida, 1999, 1998
  • Outstanding Graduate Student in History, University of West Florida, 1997-1998

Instructor Kelly Minor joined the Department of History in 2017. She specializes in offering core courses required for most cadets: the World History and the US History surveys. Armed with an M.A. from the University of West Florida and a Ph.D. from the University of Florida, Dr. Minor conducted research in 20th century American rural reform, completed a graduate minor in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, and oversees a diverse teaching roster for eight very different colleges. She also offers upper-division courses in both US and World history. Surveys remain her favorite courses, offering an unparalleled opportunity to explore history’s diverse nooks and crannies, and the always unexpected dark corners found when a curious student asks a curious question. After all, she reminds her students, the questions are more important than the answers.

Her research interests are equally diverse: a dissertation and book chapters on reform by and for rural women, agrarian ideologies and practices in the early modern west, and food preservation as empowerment. Her current research focus is almost entirely about new avenues to enrich her teaching.

Courses Taught

History of the United States I and II
The Medieval West
US 1900-1945
World History I and II

Publications

Books

  • Power in the Land: The Character of Rural Women’s Reform, in progress.

 

Articles and Book Chapters

  • “Preservation, Progress, and Power: Food Preservation as the Apex of Rural Reform.” In Progress.
  • “‘Justifiable Pride’: Negotiation and Collaboration in Florida African American Extension.” In Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction, edited by Debra A. Reid and Evan P. Bennett. University Press of Florida, 2012.
  • “‘Consumed with a Ghastly Wasting’: Home Demonstration Confronts Disease in Rural Florida, 1920-1940.” In Entering the Fray: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the New South, edited by Jonathan Daniel Wells and Sheila R. Phipps. University Press of Missouri, 2010.
  • “The Price of Longevity: Home Demonstration and Rural Reform in Modern Florida.” In Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace, edited by Robert Cassanello and Colin J. Davis. University Press of Florida, 2009.
  • “The ‘principall and only means to ripen the fruit of new hopes’: Husbandry Manuals and Parliamentary Enclosure in Early Modern England.” Alpata 1 (Spring 2004): 97-126.