Dr. Rebecca Tuuri

Dr. Rebecca Tuuri is co-author (along with Dr. Sherita Johnson, Dr. Cheryl Jenkins, and Dr. Loren Saxton Coleman) of  Mixing: Race, Higher Education, and the Case of Clyde Kennard (UPM, 2026). She is also the Associate Dean of the Honors College and an Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi. Over the past thirteen years, she has worked on various public-facing history projects through leadership roles within Southern Miss's Center for the Study of the Gulf South, the Mississippi Historical Society, the Mississippi Humanities Council, the Gulf South Historical Association, and the Mississippi Encyclopedia (online). She is the author of Strategic Sisterhood: The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle (UNC Press, 2018), which won the 2019 prize for best book in southern women's history from the Southern Association of Women Historians. She is also the winner of the 2023 Mississippi Humanities Council Humanities Scholar Award. Her next book project will examine the political leadership of women in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.