Mary E. Odem

Mary E. Odem, Associate Professor, (B.A., Washington University, 1980; M.A., University of California Berkeley, 1984; Ph.D., 1989). Joint appointment with the Department of Women's Studies. U.S. History with focus on gender, sexuality, immigration, race and ethnicity. Author of Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920 (1995), awarded the President's Book Award from the Social Science History Association. Co-editor Confronting Rape and Sexual Assault (1998). Co-editor and author in Latino Immigration and the Transformation of the U.S. South (2009).

My research and teaching examine the history of women and gender in the modern U.S. and Latin American immigration in the 20th century. My current research explores Mexican and Central American immigration to the U.S. South since 1980, focusing on themes of incorporation, transnationalism, gender and family, race/ethnicity.

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