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Alan Tully, Chair GAR 1.104, Mailcode B7000, Austin, Texas 78712 • 512-471-3261

Tiffany M. Gill

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Tiffany M. Gill

Associate Professor

Ph.D., 2003, Rutgers University
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Contact

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Phone: 512-471-3261
Office: GAR 1.104
Office Hours: SPRING 2012: W 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Campus Mail Code: B7000

Interests

Modern U.S. History, African American History, Women's History, History of the African Diaspora, Business and Economic History

Biography

Tiffany M. Gill is an Associate Professor in the Department of History as well as an affiliate with the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies and the Center for Women's and Gender Studies. She received her Ph.D. in American History at Rutgers University and her Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies from Georgetown University.  An award winning teacher and scholar, Dr. Gill was the recipient of the 2010 Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award.

In addition her book, Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women's Activism in the Beauty Industry (University of Illinois Press, 2010) was awarded the 2010 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize by the Association of Black Women Historians. Currently, Professor Gill is at work on a second book manuscript examining the birth of an African American international tourist industry in the postwar era.

Awards/Fellowships/Honors

  • Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize, Association of Black Women Historians, 2010.
  • Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Texas Board of Regents, 2010.
  • American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005-2006
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