Rebecca Tuuri

Dr. Tuuri is the Associate Dean of the Honors College and an Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she teaches U.S., Civil Rights, African American, and Women's and Gender history. She is also the current president of the Mississippi Historical Society. Over the past eleven years, she has worked on various public-facing history projects through service within Southern Miss's Center for the Study of the Gulf South, 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 and the 2019 USM College of Arts and Sciences Junior Faculty of the Year Award. She is currently working on a second book project about the political work of women in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.