Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History
B.A. Wellesley;
M.L.S. Pratt Institute;
M.A. UNC Charlotte;
Ph.D. Duke 

Curriculum Vitae

Email:  samcmillen@davidson.edu

Office:  2254 Chambers
Phone:  704-894-2935

Mail:  P.O. Box 6994, Davidson College, Davidson, NC 28305-6994
  

Professor McMillen specializes in Southern and women's history, with an emphasis on the nineteenth century. Among her publications are Motherhood in the Old South: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Infant Rearing (Louisiana State University Press, 1990),  Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South (Harlan Davidson, 1992), To Raise Up the South: Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865-1915 (Louisiana State University Press, 2001); and Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement (Oxford University Press, 2008). 

Professor McMillen won the 2000 Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching Award and was the first recipient of the Boswell Family Fellowship (2006-2007).