Dr. Catherine Adams has been a member of the Geneseo faculty since 2007. Professor Adams is an expert in the history of African-Americans in the early United States. Her research interests include early American history, African American history, women's history, and material culture. In 2010, Dr. Adams co-authored Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. in History, University of Illinois
Publications
Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England
Research Interests
- Early America
- African American
- Women
- Material Culture
Classes
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HIST 249: Topic: Black Joy
A study of a particular topic in American history. Topics could be defined either by time, theme, or space: the history of New York, the antebellum era, the Borderlands, and Latino History are possible areas that might be offered.
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WGST 310: Race, Class & Gender
This course uses multiple disciplines to explore how identity categories of gender, race, and class intersect. Students will explore and critique relations of power in families, societies, and cultures. In class discussion and in writing, students will reflect on their own ideas and thought processes, and they will engage respectfully with differing ideas.
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WRTG 105: Wrtg: Meaningful Things
This course lays the foundation for students to participate insightfully in both written and oral academic conversations. The course focuses on three modes of written and oral communication: communication as an ongoing persuasive dialogue with multiple audiences, communication with a reflective self, and communication with a dynamic evolving text. The course also introduces elements of information literacy and critical thinking needed to develop and evaluate academic conversation. Writing Seminar is typically taken by new students in their first two semesters, often as the introduction to general education, to our library, and to academic support services as sites of collaboration rather than remediation. As many new students' only seminar-style class, Writing Seminar can help lay the foundations of not only academic but also social success.