Office: Lumbee Hall 343	Phone: (910)521-6180
	Email: kathleen.hilton@uncp.edu

Research Interests

Progressive Era adolescent socialization patterns

Women's History

Rural Women and children

Projects

Investigation of USDA Extension Service work in North Carolina, 1909-1929, particularly 4-H Clubs and Home Demonstration work.

Publications

"4-H." Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, 20001.

"Rural Girlhood." Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO, 20001.

Review of Entitled to Power: By Katherine Jellison, Journal of the Association of Historians in North Carolina, Fall, 1994.

"Both in the Field, Each With a Plow: Race Gender, and Women's Work in the Rural South, 1907-1929," Hidden Histories of Women in the New South. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1994.

"Domesticity." Encyclopedia of Social History. Garland Press. 1994.

Review of Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics, and Class in the 19th-Century United States. By Lori D. Ginzberg, Journal of Social History, December 1992.

Review of All-American Girl: The Ideal of Real Womanhood in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America by Frances B. Cogan, Journal of Social History, December, 1990.

Education

Seattle University, B.Ed., Social Studies/Language Arts, 1969, cum laude.

Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, 1966-1967

Carnegie Mellon University, M.A., History, 1982

Carnegie Mellon University, Ph.D., Social History, 1987