Congratulations to
Felicity Turner, who will join the
Armstrong Atlantic State University Department of History this fall as a tenure-track assistant professor. She is currently completing her stint as a
Jerome Hall Post-doctoral Fellow at Indiana University, Bloomington. Cribbing now from the IU website:
Felicity Turner's research uses narratives of infanticide as recorded in newspapers, inquests, and
court cases to trace changes in conceptions of gender, race, and the human body in the nineteenth-century United States.
During her tenure as a Jerome Hall fellow, she will continue work on her manuscript-in-progress, "Narratives of
Infanticide: Mothers, Murder, and the State in Nineteenth-Century America." Felicity's dissertation, upon which
the manuscript is based, received an Honorable Mention from the Law and Society Association Dissertation Prize
Committee in June 2011.
Turner received her PhD in history from Duke University in 2010. Her research has been supported by fellowships from
the Newberry Library, the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, and an Albert J. Beveridge Grant from the American
Historical Association. During 2010-2011, Felicity was a postdoctoral fellow at the United States Studies Centre at
the University of Sydney, Australia. During the 2011-2012 academic year, she was the Law and Society Postdoctoral
Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School. In June 2011, Felicity also participated in the 2011 Hurst Summer
Institute in Legal History, a biennial event hosted by the Institute for Legal Studies at the UW Law School and
cosponsored by the American Society for Legal History.
