Sheila Skemp (Faculty Member is Retired, or has otherwise left the University)
Clare Leslie Marquette Professor of American History of History
Phone Number: (662)915-5868
Email: sskemp@olemiss.edu
http://history.olemiss.edu/2011/11/18/sheila-l-skemp-clare-leslie-marquette-professor-of-american-history/

Key Words: Colonial and Revolutionary America, Intellectual, Women

Research Description: Sheila Skemp received her B.A. in History from the University of Montana in 1967, and her Ph.D. in History from the University of Iowa in 1974. After having taught at a number of colleges and universities in the Midwest and the Northeast, she came to the University of Mississippi in 1980. She served for two years as Acting Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women. Her book-length publications include, William Franklin: Son of a Patriot, Servant of a King (Oxford, 1990); Benjamin and William Franklin: Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist (Bedford, 1994): Judith Sargent Murray: A Brief Biography with Documents (Bedford, 1998); and First Lady of Letters: Judith Sargent Murray and the Struggle for Women’s Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009). In 2009, Professor Skemp received the University’s Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Teaching and Research. She has been the Clare Leslie Marquette Professor of American History since 2008. She has also been designated an OAH Distinguished Lecturer for the academic years 2010-2013.

Honors Theses:

Frey, Elizabeth Ramsey (2013) The Enlightenment and Nanotechnology: Men who create the World in Their Own Image (full text)

Suess, Matthew Karl (2012) The Scottish Court of Session and Federal Supremacy in the United States of America

Clemons, John Tyler (2010) "The Divine Dilemma: The Development of Puritan Thought Concerning Church and State in New England, 1630-1780." (full text)

Upchurch, Hunter Glenn (2006) Cotton and Compromise: Charles Pinckney and the Political Unification of South Carolina 1788-1808

Gunn, Lesley Catherine (2002) "The Gunn Clan: A Study of the Migration of a Scottish Highland Clan to Colonial America"