Dr. Cherisse Jones-Branch

Dean of Liberal Arts & Communication

Professor of History

---

Education

• Ph.D. The Ohio State University
• M.A. University of Charleston
• B.A. College of Charleston

Teaching Specialties

• United States 
• African American
• Women
• Civil Rights
• Rural History

Courses Taught

African American History (to and since 1877); U.S. Civil Rights Movement; United States Women's History; U.S. Southern Women’s History 

Research Interests

• African American
• Women
• Arkansas
• Race and Gender
• Civil Rights
• Rural History

Honors/Awards

• James and Wanda Lee Vaughn Endowed Professor of History
• 2017-18 University Educator of the Year Award, Arkansas Council for the Social Studies
• Dean's Research Award, Arkansas State University
• University of South Carolina's Institute for Southern Studies, Short-Term Summer Fellowship
• Faculty Research Award, Arkansas State University
• Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award, 2008, Strong-Turner Alumni Association
• Student Affairs Hero Award, 2007

Curriculum Vitae

Download >>

Biography

Cherisse joined the History Department faculty in 2003.  She most recently published Crossing the Line: Women's Interracial Activism in South Carolina during and after World War II (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014), and is co-editor of Arkansas Women: Their Lives and Times (Athens: University of Georgia Press, (2018).  Her current research project is  "Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps": Rural Black Women's Activism in Arkansas, 1913-1965.