Rebecca Marchiel
Assistant Professor of History
Phone Number:
Email: rkmarchi@olemiss.edu
http://history.olemiss.edu/rebecca-marchiel-2/

Key Words: American Political History since Reconstruction

Research Description: Rebecca Marchiel’s research interests include urban history, political history, and the history of American capitalism. She is currently working on her first book project, “Neighborhoods First: The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation.” The book examines how the U.S. financial system shaped and was shaped by the political organizing of ordinary people during the last third of the twentieth century. It charts the story of a multiracial coalition of low- and moderate-income urbanites who sought community control over investment capital. Drawing on the unprocessed archive of the movement’s lead organization, National People’s Action, the project explores how activists fought to preserve the benefits of regulated banking at a time when the New Deal financial regime began to crumble.

Honors Theses:

Jordan, Mikayla (2021) Making Parents Experts: Parents for Public Schools at the Turn of the 21st Century (full text)

Grisham, Neale (2020) Who Has a Voice: Issues of Free Speech at the University of Mississippi from 1955-1970 (full text)