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 and 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 and 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.