Holly Y McGee

Assistant Professor
McMicken Hall
513-556-2405
holly.mcgee@uc.edu

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Education

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 2011 (U.S. History).

MA, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 2004 (Afro-American Studies).

MA, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL, 2001 (Applied Social Science).

BA, Dillard University, New Orleans, LA, 1999 (English).

Professional Summary

Hailing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Holly Y. McGee specializes in U.S. History and African American History, with an emphasis on black women’s activist and intellectual history, comparative political activism in the United States and South Africa, and popular culture in the twentieth century.  Secondary specialties include local histories of the American South, South African women’s history, and oral histories.  Currently, Dr. McGee teaches undergraduate courses in black history and film, culture and counterculture, and African American history in early and colonial America.

Presently, Dr. McGee is conducting research for her book, a biographical oral history of South African activist Elizabeth Mafekeng.  Mafekeng was one of four women featured in Dr. McGee's dissertation, “When the Window Closed: Gender, Race, and (Inter)Nationalism, the United States and South Africa, 1920s-1960s,” which put into conversation existent and new scholarship regarding black radical women of the Left in the United States and South Africa during the twentieth century and was primarily concerned with the evolution of women’s protest from localized issues of race-based discrimination to international, anti-colonial protests of the era. 

Dr. McGee’s most recent publication credit, “‘It was the wrong time and they just weren’t ready’: Direct-action protest at Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College (AM&N),” appeared as a reprint in Arsnick: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas, an edited collection on SNCC’s pivotal role in transforming the status of racial discrimination in Arkansas in the 1960s.  Additionally, she has forthcoming articles in the fields of local Arkansas history, and South African women's history.

Peer Reviewed Publications

“Negro Notes from the U.S.A.: Social Perception and Interpretations of Race and Gender in the United States and South Africa, 1945-1965” in The Journal of Pan African Studies vol. 3, no. 1 (September 2009): 54-74. 

“‘It was the wrong time and they just weren’t ready’: Direct-action protest at Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College (AM&N)” in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly vol. 66, (Spring 2007): 18-42.

Book Chapters

“‘It was the wrong time and they just weren’t ready’: Direct-action protest at Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College (AM&N)” in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly vol. 66, (Spring 2007): 18-42. Rpt. in Arsnick: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas, John A. Kirk and Jennifer J. Wallach, eds., (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2011): 35-53.

Encyclopedia Articles

“Mxenge, Victoria,” in Dictionary of African Biography (Oxford University Press, 2011)

“Mafekeng, Elizabeth,” in Dictionary of African Biography (Oxford University Press, 2011)

Honors & Awards

Erskine A. Peters Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2010-2011.

Courses Taught

3030, African American History & Film.

2013, African American History to 1861.

583, American History since 1929.

512, America in the Sixties.

582, African American History 1941-Present.

300, Introduction to Historical Thinking.

587, African American Women's History.

400, Junior Topics: Africa is Not a Country.

887, Independent Study.

1099, Gender and Politics in the New South Africa.

5000, Comparative Civil Rights Politics.

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