Profile

Angela Jill Cooley studies the history of race and civil rights in the twentieth-century South. She teaches courses on constitutional and legal history, civil rights, and foodways. Her research includes publications on the history of segregated restaurants, food regulation during World War I, and hunger and food insecurity in the rural South.

Education

• Ph.D., University of Alabama
• J.D. George Washington University

Fields of Study

• Twentieth-Century U.S.
• Civil Rights
• Constitutional and Legal
• Foodways

Courses taught

• History 191: U.S. Since 1877
• HIST250: Riot & Revolution in History  
• HIST 268: History & American Democracy  
• HIST 280: History in Black and White
• HIST 300: Study Abroad/Study Away Historical Tour
• HIST 368: U.S. Constitutional History
• HIST 430: Hunger in U.S. History    
• HIST 481W/581: Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century
• HIST 495W: Senior Seminar
• 530: Agricultural & Food History  
• HIST 568: U.S. Constitutional History & Historiography  
• HIST 604: Reading Seminar in United States History
•   610: Research Seminar in United States History  

Representative Publications

• "Food Soldiers: Rural Southerners and Food Regulation during World War I." In The American South and the Great War 1914-1924, edited by Matthew L. Downs and M. Ryan Floyd, 89-115. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018.
• "Burgers in a Hurry: Early Fast Food in Birmingham, Alabama." Southern Studies 25, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2018):
• "Southern Food Studies: An Overview of Debates in the Field," History Compass 16, no. 10 (October 2018): https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12490.
• "Food and Regionalism." In The Routledge History of American Foodways, edited by Jennifer Jensen Wallach and Michael D. Wise, 311-325. New York: Routledge, 2016.
• To Live and Dine in Dixie: The Evolution of Urban Food Culture in the Jim Crow South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015.
• "Freedom's Farms: Activism and Sustenance in Rural Mississippi," in Dethroning the Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways from Slavery to Obama, edited by Jennifer Jensen Wallach, 199-214. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2015.